The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-22 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, 1851.

ieh this
astonished, Wasannot
won afts pplumedut
forth.
REPRESENTATION OF lIEDFORDSMRE.
that
bobi appeared
ldseaswith w
What has been settled here is not yet known. ! ''
Manteuffel returned to Dresden this morning by the . To the statement of the poll which we gave yea-
early train, and will hold aconference with l'rince Schwa:- terday, we have to add the latest returns from Luton and
senberg In the course of the evening. If l'rumia yields to Leighton Burrard, which did not reach Bedford until after
Austria, the next plenary sitting will take place to-morrow, our parcel bad been sent. The whole returns of the county
an the conferences will tin n be told what Austria anti give this result of the tint dey's poll
lerossis eapeet them to do. The Acme Preusaisdle this : Colonel Gilpin
evening my., " that in well-informed circles the expects. I Mr. lloughton 4lB
tiro is entertained that should not perfect equality be
conceded to Prussia in the new formation ut I the Majority B9l.
coded, ration the proposals made by Austin will be de• 1 At the close of the poll, a mob of mischievous persons
limb. ly declined." This sutenumt must be re ei wed , attacked several gentlemen, and pelted them to the Gen
rgee
with great caution, for e'v, v, a this usually well informed jour- Hotel. 'io further mischief was occasioned, beyond th
nal has Ins n deceived on this question. ' destruction of a few windows.
Ihe Prince of Presuia has lett Wismar fur the mat of his I Yesterday morning the poll was opened at eight o'clock,
revernment at Cublents. i hut very few voters presented therascires, and the town
The commission of the second chan,hr r ou the budget exhibited but few appearances of a. contesteel election. It
deft with the secret service money yestetelay. The fraction was not supposed from the first that there existed the
of the left succeeded in carrying pronomls fur the rejection slightest door, of returning the. popular candidate. but it
of • very rest portion of the stool demanded. Among : was thought there were good reasons fur contesting the
the items, which were very- considerably diminished, was `county.
one of PA,neill thalers fur " l'ressuliventionen," from In the first place it was Mr.
eh a declaration of indepens
which 30,0n0 thakrs were deducted. Councillor Putt• donee as had never been. itnessed in this county; sad, in
kanner, who represented the Government in this PM' the neat place, it would show the liberal party how ill they
mission. was very angry at this and the other deductiems, stood upon the register, and so stimulate them to exertion I
and ele elan el that they stem equal to a vote of want of eon- I that they should he better prepared fur the general election.
talents in the government, v. iii•reupou %lucky replied," Of I
rWe may remark, in passing, that never was a register in
10
(9,- It is ; Mill is meant as such, such a condition PA that of lkslfordshire; which, of course,
Win n the question of the expenses of the mobilisation i is owing to the absence of contests since that record came
tomes on most eioliont debate. will ensue, and should the into exist. nee. Hundred. of electors discover low the first
PIIIPA ',tent nsajority in the Chamber be in the least degree time that they are •irtually disfranchised, not having seen
dohcult te, govern, the dissolution of toe Chambers, and the to the entry of their names ; whilst, on the other hand, the
prevision..a of a new eke:torn! law, may he expected. names of a great number of persons she have been dead
In tin' Sto°o4 Chamber a Protest saulhat tne introdue- many rears constantly appear on tne register. This con-
teas of the new class tax law seas presented by Count :Viol- test, therefore, will be a lesson to the liberals, and ensure
Is rit, in the name of the no disused princely families of a gurg,..4 the register.
Prussia. 'the final adoption of the- project of the law On the At the close of the poll the following numbers were
income tax was then agreed to. This chandler deem not posted, but two returns were nut included.
nee t amain until Friday. For Colonel Gilpin
Ibe new press law will be 11.1.flIPMAI in the upper chants Mr. lloughton
I. r Psnturrow. The opposition is expected to muster very The Sheriff's return will be made at twelve o'clock on
strung Monday.
--

An Anstrian flotilla has hecn stationed in the
hilitmiur of Klock, near Hagen°. where the Turkish
enlgti the Atuitriun di ' ' ms.

TILE INCOME TAX.

hr ofticti in coniinand of this flotilla is in-
s!ructi If to prtveut the landing of any British or
Turkish vessels.

Mr. Iferries, M.P., has placed upon the notice-
hook the term. of the rem:dation which he had intended bud
night to hare moved in committee as an amendment to Sir
Charles Wood's proposition bad the consideration of the
budget been proceeded with, but which, under the eirenm-
etances, he has now, a., a matter id course, postponed till
31 on ilay.
Mr. Harries will then submit to the committee the fol-
luwint resolutiim :

"That it is the opinion of thin committee that the respec-
tive ditties in Great Britain ou pr.oits arising from property,
professions, trades, and ollir, and the stamp duties iu lre-
Loot, grunted by two acts passed in the sixth year of her
per sent Majesty, and which hase been continued and
amended by several subsequent arts, were granted fur
limited period and to meet temporary exigencies.
"That it is highly expedient to adhere to the declared
intention, of pariisment when these duties were granted
and continued, in order to secure their speediest practicable
cessvtion, to limit the renewal of any portion of them to
such an amount as may he sufficient, in the existing Mate
of the public revenue, to provide for the expenditure sanc-
tioned by parliament, earl for the due maintenance of pub-
lic crcs.tit."

ESTATES OF ENGLAND. I
(Front the Dolly News.l
WELIIECK ABBEY AND VICINITY. !
I said, a comparison between the rents, rates,
wages, and prices of eighty years ago, when Arthur
Young inspected the district from which I now write,
would be given in the present communication. In
doing so, let us take a view of other properties than
that of (lumber, as I do not find any of the Clamber
farms named by Arthur Young. Our course is to
Welbeck Abbey, the seat of the venerable Duke ofl
Portland, who was a child, lisping to his nurse, atl
that time, two-and-a-half or three years old. He is
now 83, a hale, strong-minded man, venerable, and
venerated by the population of his extensive estates.
From Welbeck our course will be south-cast to Clip-
stone, in the forest, to view the water meadows;
then south-west, to Mansfield; next, west and north-
west, to Alfreton, Chesterfield, and other parts in
Derbyshire, of which Young has left a published re-
cord; and then round to the north, to the border of I
Yorkshire, to our point of starting. Let that be
Blythe, or its vicinity.
At Blythe, Arthur Young found ordinary farm
land let at Ins. per acre; poor-rate, Is.; but in pa-
rishes around, 2s. and upward to 45.; wages, 6s. per
week; mutton, beef, and pork, at an average of 31d.;
butter, 3d.; cheese, 3d.; bread, Ild.; wool, 31d. per
lb.; the fleece worth Is. Bd. In 1451, rent is tlos.;
poor-rate, Is.; wages, los. to 135.; average, its.;
mutton, beef, and pork, (id. ; butter, d. ; cheese, 6d.;
bread, I id. ; wool, is. 2d. per lb.; the fleece worth
is. 6d.

Going from the abbey, through the WeMeek
woods, two miles or more eastward, we arrive upon a
private road, leading forth by a lodge and gateway
to the turnpike between Worksop and .lanstield,
towns twelve miles asunder, our position being now
about five miles front Worksop. Our course is to
the turnpike; but let us stop a minute hero; we may
meditate when in motion again on the strange mys-
tery of our nature. Down that grassy avenue, by
thC lake side, three hundred yards or so from
where we stand, close by yonder thorns at
the turning, jug out of sight of this house,
by a yard or two, fell Lord George Ilea-
unek, stricken by sudden and fatal disease in the
region of the heart—October, 1418. Past this spot
many persons had gone in search of him when lie
was missing, yet did not, until Ide at night, lung
atter he was dead, think of going yonder. It was a
severe blow to his venerable father, but he bole it
with a strength of mind which nobody knew to
falter.

'Go on: to the left we PCP extensive kennels, the
care and amusement of Lord Henry Bentiuck, who is
zealously devoted to ton-hunting: the eldest brother,
the Marquis of Titchfield, is more given to the
amusement of shooting in stubble fields or pheasant
plantations. Their venerable father employs himself
en the reclamation of waste land, irrigation of mea-
dows, adjastment of rents to changing circumstances,
and occasionally in issuing injunctions to tenants,
that, whatever they do, let them not reduce working,
men's wages—tlwse have been I Is. and 13s. a week
—let them continue: so says the Duke of Port-
land. Differently engaged from her brothers is
Lady Mary Bentinek. We may see her one-horsed
carnage and two men servants at any one of the
sevorul villages or towtts within ten miles, to which
the duke's estates extend; a box in the carriage to
carry goods, books, cundials sod condiments fur the
poor, one servant to keep by the carriage, the other
to assist her. It is her every-day employment to
visit the numerous schools which she has established,
to read to the young and hear them reed; to give
them rewards; to visit the sick and needy, and raise
them out of sickness and nerd as far am she eon. She
can do much, and does it- God bless Lady Mary
Bentinck, and all who are like her!—such is the
s.seiration of many a grate.tiel heart.
fhe Duke of Portland has, for twenty-five Years or
more, had a staff of men, rolled the " Dukes navi-
gators," employed in making new water-courses to
flood the meadows, to drain them, square fields,
make new fences and new roads. About the villages
of Norton and Cockney, operations may now be seen
progress;iu but if we go south-east four or five
miles to Clipstone, once the royal residence, we shall
sec the rabbit warrens that from time immemorial
lasted up to a few years ago, converted into the best
of pasturage. A rent of 2e. 6d. per acre was the
u•-most that the warrens of sand, fern, and furze,
would have let for twenty years ago; now they are
worth from 30s. to 30a. of mut per annum, and all
tr.• irrigation.
Some readers will remember Dodslev'a farce of the
"King and the Miller of Mansfield.". I)odsley was
a rative of this place. King John is supposed to
hare lust his way when hunting on this ground (now
inigated by the Duke of Portland with the fertilising
writers of the Meden and the Man, the latter stream
giving name to Mansfield, the human wastes, for
which little had been dune until now irrigated by
the knowledge streams opene dby Ludy Mary, his
daughter) ; the king, in the three, meets " honest
John Vockle," the miller, whose mill, according to
tradition, stood where the duke has now made a
revernir to raise the water to the level required for
the nes meadows below Mansfield. Those at Clip-
stone, shero we mow yippee* ourselves to stand, are
!irrigated from the Mellen. a 'stream which issues
from the limestone stratum in Derbyshire, a few
f mires distant, which origin is probably in its favour
for irrigation. The hind reclaimed from waste by
this system, near to where we stand, is of the follow-
ing extent :
A. I. P.
Clip tone Water Meadows
Mawdield, Wo"dhou.e ditto
High o.6tbarn ditto
Lindharst ditto
Gleadthorpe ditto
Carburton ditto
Wetback and Norton 33 0 22

Great changes have been made in the quality and
value of some crops, in others hardly any advance.
Young valued the turnips at Z. per acre; but added,
they were unhoed; and left us to infer they were
sown without manure. Turnips are now grown on
the same land, worth LW., and were the tenants at
liberty to dispose of them in any market, by sending
them off the farm, they might bring 20/. per acre;
three years ago, some of the tenants of thus district
were uttered . peraere for Swedish turnips, butdared
not sell them at any mice, being bound to have them,
all consumed upon the form. Of this they complain
loudly now that the ruilways communicate with the
great towns of Yorkshire and Lancashire from their
district, and now that those towns are in part sup-
plied with foreign corn, while they (the farmers)
arc obliged to buy foreign manures to get up their
crops of turnips and keep their land in high condi-
tion to compete with foreign corn. They say they
should be at liberty to sell their produce to the best
advantage. Some farmers, between this and Rother-
ham, mold swedes, in P 447, to a manufacturer near
Gluesop, un the other side of the hills which divide
the shirts of York and Lancaster, and which are
penetrated by the Woodhead tunnel over three miles
in length. It was a traffic which, tx•fine that tunnel
was made, could nut have occurred, from physical
impossibility. They were screed with notices of pro-
ceedings for penalties, also with notices to quit their
farms for having sold turnips and not consumed
them within their farm fields or yards, although
' they had been large purchasers' of manures not pre-
' duccd upon the farms. 'they only escaped penalties and
retained their occupations by the most earnest entree-
, ties of forgiveness, and promises not to offend again ;
promises to he content with a return of 12 . or Li:.
per acre for their expensively cultured root crops, in.
• stead of 25/. All the tenants in the district where I
now write are bound in this manner. They say that,
if they must be sacrificed in the present trunsitionary
• state of agriculture, the occupiers who may succeed
' will at least have the benefit of cultivating the fund
by the rule of their own judgment and interest ; that
the landlords will not find tenants to be hound by
covenants, obsolete us Robin Hoed, and luunpered as
they are now. For it is a universal expression here
' that all tenant-farmers must in one or two or three
' years of low prices sink to pauperism. I do not
think their fortunes seem so hopeless, though if we
, compare present expenses with theme of eighty years
ago, the landlord and the labourer are now in a
highly favoured condition compared with the tenant,
farmer. The labourer's sewn are double ; his
bread is about the same price us eighty years
• ago; his clothes are cheaper mid better, though
wool is more than three times the price it
was then. Of provisions, only butcher's meat.
batter, and cheese arc higher now ; these
arc perhaps 60 per cent. higher, which still leaves
the advantage on the side of the labourer, whose
wages are lon per cent. better. The landlord is 21$)
per cent. richer than eighty years ago, supposing
that he is not immersed in die troubles of family set-
tlements and mortgages; even the fanner is not
worse, though at present not better.
Cuing south four or five miles, bearing a few
points to the west, we puss through the t'ertile
meadows in which stands the pretty, clean, bustling
little town of Worksop. with its malt making, its
timber trade, and truffle from the Manchester and
Lincolnahire Railway across the forest country where
there is no rail, but to width there are many visitors.
Before us, stretching from east to west, rises the
front of the noble woodlands in the heart of which
lie (lumber to the left, Welbeck to the right,
Thonsby behind (lumber, and others behind
Thoresby. We turn to the right through a lodge
gate, our faces to the west, and enter the park of
Worksop manor. It is divided into numerous pad-
docks, and let at from .ios. to 60s. per acre for
grazing. One of the enclosures is let in allotments
to inhabitants of Worksop at the rate of 44 per acre.
a quarter of an acre to each person. This piece of
ground was let by the Duke of Norfolk, before the
late I of Newcastle bought the manor nine years I
ago, for 17/. ; its present rent is 87/. Other allotments
let by the late Duke of Newcastle arc at the rate of
64 an acre.
After a walk of a mile through the fine old park'
of Worksop among trees of noblest growth and
beauty, many brethren of whom the Duke of New-
math:has recently cut down and sold at a good price'
for railway purposes, and for the Sheffield trade
(wisely, as enough of timber is still left), we
come to the Manor Hall, or rather its ruins.
When the Duke of Norfolk parted with the estate,
here was a noble mansion, fit fur any duke in Eng-
land. although not completed to the fulness of the
original design. His Grace of Newcastle set to work,
pulled it down, sold the materials (it is said for not
more than the cost of demolition), leaving only the
etablery and some fragmentary portions standing.
The spoliation of this pluee is one of many evad
dances that the late Duke of Newcastle did t.
nut advocate the legislative supremacy of territorial'
power for its dignity, its feudal grandeur, but rather I ,
for ends of vulgar individualism and private gain. I
Frequent are the regrets, deep the repentance of ; •
persons in Worksop. for the departure of the Norfolk!
family from this phice; repentance I say, for they .
accuse themselves in Worksop of having affrontedl,
the present Duke of Norfolk, when he was Earl of
Surrey, and a candidate at Retford (with which place
and the handmaid Bassetlaw Worksop joins in send- ,
ing two members of parliament), by hissing him,
I spit-,
Ling on hint, stoning him, and stopping his carriage in ,
Worksop-street to molest him. And what for ?-- ,
Because he was a catholic ; and because he had sup- I,
ported the Reform Bill (it was at that period). had
sought the disfranchisement of Retford, in opposition
to the Duke of Newcastle, whose borough it was. As -
soon as the estates of Norfolk dukedom fell to him., PoISONING AN INF %NI BY GIN.—In the Express
he sold Worksop, and—we have just told what fol- 'of ye,terdav, under the head "Marylebouc Police Court,"
ohfile ain charge astate a"
ofi linttax Hannahication,
lowed—the Duke of Newcastle bought it, and to the' 1'!,,1xr...aa"/.'d:wri-haiett..Parn having,
w
mortification of the town laid the manor house in ; 3
(.a.,i,ce(in, a quan
ears ,t,iity o,f
sagindtewhEollibeth Ramsey, a child under
wreck. It is said the reason was. that none of his
own family might claim it for a residence. It is fur- removsysl, while perfectly insensibl.7,raettue7te'restTmereiP erad
was
ther said Nat it will probably be sold again. and if Dispensary. ptn_isakirecy., theNs•w cor.
New-road.
w Yesterdayascommunicatedmoraing with,thc•ch ilandadiedoth.
so, it is hoped that the Duke of Norfolk will buy mr
morning he. held an incst on the body, at the Western Die.
and rebuild the mansion. The tradespeople think II
cpz,rh,,,,,lsingewb-znd. The facts depo,vd to at the policr.
proved, the surgeon of the institution
they will behave better in future if he returns to
them. But I hear the late Duke of Newcastle has; said that the deceased was brought there, and, finding her
applied.fwly
athgeu,sntomaaciihibptuimhpiilagnodr. etFtramedinding
entailed it.
Proceeding through the Worksop Park, at two!
we are in the do_ I that the child al continued ill, he opened the jugular
miles beyond the ruined mansion, finto7ihehric.stohmeath
main of Welbeck Abbey. Here the greatest oaks in vein. but efforts
w'as"dceirnmet'reetuthaajt Ted liquor child
died
England stand before us. The first impulse at I can
of death. The jury returned a Tertian:l"u- man.
sight of them is to be a Dwid, and worship ; I slaughter" against Hannah Maria Evans, and the coroner
but one, the Greendale Oak. has been en! made out his warrant of committal.
disfigured be the wretched conceit of an an-1 THE BURGLARY AND ATTEMPT TO MURD7.II AT
cestreas of the Duke of Portland, who caused an WINDSOA;TaAnaIian named Joseph Ash, who in the cm-
opening to be cut through its trunk fora carriage_l ploym
town osistiilndinr,rohni.nis ironmonger, carrying tthoef
way, that the current of reflection takes another di- fasisig concerned in the murderous attack on Mr. Tucker
rection. Instead of admiration there is pity. The I and' rs. Whittaker. the particulars of which appeared in
poor old tree which, ages ago. was a Methueelah, is
the Thursdayhetrit'ie vt
uielaasat. The
weris re"matnidnedorite
now propped up to keep his crate hulk from toppling !iio..nig-t Eezre
n rewasss of
tsuivr
over, the gateway in his trunk tan feet high and five I favourably e, lhan we, at Ent expected,
Pc
unn
imamiare going o
un
en of the
feet wide. having taken the heart out of him and verity of their wounds and theirVaLl“, adage—Mr.
most of the life; he has still some green branches, Tacker Wag 91, and Mrs. R"hittaker 80.

Total.

MO 034

Value before irtigution, 2s. tkl. per acre at 25
years' purchase, 1,831/. :Ss.; after irrigation, 2/. per
acre at 25 years purchase, 29,360'.
I had no mtatts of ascertaining the cast of the
works, but, as the engineering difficulties are trilling,
I do not believe it amounted to anv very consider-
able sum--certainly to no sum like that named in a
local publication, purporting to be a guide through
Sherwood Forest—namely, 100'. per acre.
The labourers cottages on the Clipstone estate—
indeed, on the Duke of Portland's property generally
—and on that of Earl Manvers, ate far superior to
the cottages of labourers elsewhere. They arc
arranged in piles of four, or three, or two; each pile
like a first-class villa, with its garden and shrubbery
e.round it, with windows enough to incur a serious
t.•:—so you would think, when at a little distance;
1;• t. coming up with them, you see that in each
villa-like assortment of two or three or four cottages
there are four or six or eight blind window places,
painted in imitation of sashes and glass. but not of
glass, because of the window duties. The rents of
these pretty houses, considering their ample gardens,
the abundance of forest fuel, and comparative good
wages of the inmates, is only trifling—about forty
shillings a year.
This estate belonged up to the middle of last een-
!tare to the crown. At that time a considerable part
of .Nlarvlebone-fields, in London, belonged to the
Duke of Portland, as the ground-rents of the street
houses built where those fields lay do still. He was
patron (the father of the present duke) of the
parish church of St. Marylebonc. For this
church patronage the crown gave him Clip-
stone-park. its chace, and all this fine estate
lying around it in Sherwood Forest. A provident
bargain fur the Duke of Portland; not so good for
the public, whose property, called "crown lands,"
was given away. What those lands failed to return
to the crown the public have made good out of the
taxes.

The farmers arc open to hear any suggestion about
change of taxation. Complete free trade; all com-
modities free, all industry free; taxes levied directly
upon income. according to profits and security of the
sources of income, is an alternative which begins to
engage their attention. They, making no profit,
think they should then escape paying any national
taxes.

but is a melancholy wreck. The massiveness and LAW INTELLIGENCE.
beauty of the woodland scenery in this park grow
' upon us to sublimity. The Abbey itself is quite a . THIS DAY.
! secondary house; but its lake, gardens, and glorious
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
woods make it a noble residence almost matchless. B
•i „, iSIOOI/ lIA COOMIVIOIIitI Oneness.l ascertained from the register kept in the gardensi 101 REIGATE AND DORKING DANK.—IN RE SEALS.
at Welbeek, that up to the 24th of January, 114:.1,' His Honour gave judgment this morning on the aeica-
. which was the day of my visit, the temperature has ticss tr.ati s
e r -
' not been so high in that place any previous winter tificate was granted' at a 'figairrncer sitting. After reviewing
season since 1b24. In that year, `larch, April, and all the circumstances, his Honour directed a third-class
i May were exceedingly cold, but from the geniality of cAtineate to issue, at the end of three months from the date
the summer the harvest, though rather late, WAS a of the original application (27th November last) ; so that the
fair one.
, certificate will issue in the course of a few days.
_

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,
THIS DAY.
BOW STREET.

EMBEZZLEMENT or 800 I.—A. W. Dear, late auction-
room and cash-clerk to Messrs. Robins, the auctioneers,
at the Plasm, Covent-garden, Wal finally esamined,
charged with embezzling various sums of money, the pro-
perty of hi+ employers.
Mr. E. Robin+ recapitulated his evidence, which appeared
in last Saturday's L.rpress, and several percon+ having
proved the payment of sums of money to the prisoner,
which Mr. Itcioius said he had never received, Mr. I'4l
bound some of the wit:nesse+ over to prosecute, but further
remanded the prisoner until Thursday neat in convequenee
of a dispute in the accounts.

DEFRAUDING THE ltEvENt:E.—On Thursday Imt,
It the Town Hall, Newport, Isle of Wight nume-
rous informations were laid, at the suit of the Corn-
' missioneri of Inland Revenue, against postmasters, van
propria tors, and others, for infringement of the excise laws.
The rues were conducted by J. Bateman, Eq., LL.D., so-
lic;tor to the Board of Inland Revenue; and Eve of the
parties chanted were defended by solicitors residing in the
neighbourhood. Frauds upon the revenue were proved
against nine postmaaters and eight van proprietors, and also
against an old smuggler for idling foreign brandy ; and
penalties amounting to 2181. were given in behalf of the
crown. There are screed information+ pending against
other parties.
ROVAL INFIRMARY FOR ASTHMA, CONSUMPTION,
AND ceritra DP,EAbES or TIM CHEST. The annual
general meeting of the governor. of this most useful charity
was held at the London Tavern on Thursday. Front the
report it appeared that during the rest year upwanls of
LIM poor persons, afflicted with various kinds of chest
diseases, had been admitted as out-patient., and 32 received
a. in-patients, most of whom have been discharged greatly
relieved, if not perfectly cured. The number at present on
the books exceeds :WO, and increases daily. Since the first
establishment of the institution in ISI I, upwards of 37,000
in and out-door patient. have been admitted to its benefits.
The expenditure for the year exceeds by 1261. 6s. 7d. the
income. A festival is to be held next month, when Thom-
son Hankey, Esq., jun., Deputy-Governor of the Bank of
England, will preside.
TILE UNIVERSITY COMMPSIONS.—It is said that a
legal opinion has been obtained by the authorities at Cam-
bridge, suggesting some technical informality as regards the
couatitution of the royal eornmisaien. but accompanied by a
recommendation to parties to facilitate its objects. It is
understood that no opinion ha. as yet been obtained by the
authorities of the sister university, who have submitted a
case to Mr. Nitwit, the eminent Queen's counsel; but
meanwhile many of the most distinguished professors, heads
of colleges, and ethos connected with the discipline and
instruction of the place, have, it is understood, transmitted
' important evident*, to the commissioners for Oxford. A
report prevails that the aged President of Magdalen College
ham, on the part or his society, refused information, on tho
plea of its being prohibited by the statutes of his college ;
but it is obvious that means will easily be devised. with or
without parliamentary interference, of overcoming any obeta-
cles of this description to the introduction of such improve-
. ments as are nowhere more indispensable than at Magdalen
College, of which the income is disproportionately large, as
, compared with the educational results proceeding from that
society. Judging from the published statutes of the collage,
' compared--with the practice of Magdalen College as relates
to elect' , 61e., the absurdity indeed of pleading obedience
to founders' statutes as a plea for concealment is self-evi-
dent. The Society of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, it is
stated in letters, from Oxford, has recently followed the ex-
ample of All Souls and other collegiate bodies, in acceding
to the application of her Majesty's commiwioners for intim-
&nation. That good reasons exist fur the reluctance said to
be manifested at Exeter College, in the !AMC university, to
take the same 'townie...dile course, is universally lealiesed,
although it is but titir to say that the misdeed. charged upon
that society, and of which evidence has been laid before the
cenumissionem, are of (late which relieves the junior mem-
bers of the foundation from the imputation of being parties
to them.—G/obe.

" SERIOUS DISCONTENT PREVAILS AXON° TILE OFFI.
ems OF Tem MILLBANK PILO. '" says a correspondent,
consequence of au order issiwil by Colonel Jehh, sur-
veyor general of prisons putting all the subordinate Aker,
of this establishment under stoppages of two shillings per
week until a month's pay is obtained from each of them.
This is Mine in order that in case of any inisimiduct on the
part °luny such officers the authorities may have the power
of dismissing them, and stopping the month's wages thus
stopped. When the order was issued no account was given
where it was to ice placed, or whether it would bear interest,
and on some of the men objecting to the stoppage they were
sent fur by the governor and informed that if they did not
comply with the order he would suspend than. Many of
the officers put under stoppages have, it is staksl, been em-
ployed a sufficient time to entitle them to a retiring pension,
and they consider that their service is a sufficient guarantee
fur the faithful performance of their duty. It appears that
the officers intend memorialising the Secretary of State on
thu subject, as the order does nut bear his signature."