The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-22 00:00:00

IRELAND.

et Ide hey red Ide aehspe-414 le ill abed We mi.
held twee ow tie Isttwas. muldona. illownitel
meetreaW le Imo illeatrlase seiftegalitra„ at the
wet prelates art ever paled the drink er me
aimed
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elterelit I seaderiar=t youriplertheit mem
tary, rot the pier Vane eall.
&We ad kneed awketlets ter /my twl IMMO VP.
to the awl at toy Ilk the bewerable leatheew yea haw bane le Rey
bream wataki eat to the rladkatioa ot toy eieneller. To we,
gegibrn. Mr. Prealkat, sod Searrtary, I are • aew debt of
wad-
tat% kr biota* wedhott ot ooareyi year etwelatory address to
eo kneabie • penwerairezl I lave the te selwette molt,
otth lbeilwi et So your 410th we Weikel err-
vast *Omit haw risrwulittiseorr, P.P., atrokutowt, Arab•
down et Wilda.
I The *Bowls; Was appear la the Arming Chronicle :
alr,ae the espnaker le old* the amegiowlug letter alluake
ham tow elbow% ethers as well as by Mr. ea. Butler. I Mall
tact diked by tie pu yew esettet wavatiestr. —I have
AltoW vv iv be, sir, yaw wet °What arms% Baeurwm:ar.—
Itiwerit Jan. le, ISM
To W. Archer Butler, Bag., Duthie.-114,—Though I have taco
the wise resolve, as 1 trust it W. to show all controversies which
may possibly arise out of my letter rix Arehlgehop Untie, yet I
am most willing to explain any valeoecopsha which may
appear to haws been honestly adopted of any expreasios
I have wed. When I as-eroad that the !hilltop church

tatablishmeut in Ireland was abhorred by the people, I had not the
most remote Idea of speaking of the establishment others-We than
as • material church; that Is, a church enjoying[ the trnipeulides of
another by force of law. In opposition to the will as well se to the in-
terests of the people. It never once occurred to mo that the esprea.
aloe could be otherwise understood, or I should certainly have guarded
myself against the interpretation you have attached to It, for I am
moat willing to acknowledgethe good services rendered to the afflicted
poor in Ireland, mote especially during the late and prment famine, •
bye large potion of the maident beneficed clergy of the establish.
meat- You also indulge what I mean by mitertlng that bundreds of •
thonsulds of the public money have been lavished—l did not my
" voted "—on the churches of dud witabltahrdeat ; and in reply, I briefly
observe that upon that point [spoke largely, carrying my aiservation
over a large awe of time (though not so distant as not to be within
the memory of us all), and that I attach the epithet public to the re-
VCIMCS of the establishment, m whatever form coliected, or whence-
soever derived, In conformity with the ',meaning opinion that thatch
property is !nattily subject to the conuol of the public authorities of
the country, provkled it be justly administered, and be not alienated
from rechismatiul purposes; and here I will venture to add, that I
never have contemplated any change in the die/amnion of that pro-
perty not having a just and equitable basis for its appropriation, and
which has not been, over and over again, advocated by the must dis-
tinguished protecanta.—T have the honour to remain, sir, year most
obedient servant, Suammatnts.

SCOTLAND.

EntNADWIR, JAW. 20.

The master cotton spinners of Glasgow have passed
the following resolutions regarding credit and terms
for the sale of yarns, which are to take effect on the
26th inst. :
I. That each month Is to be understood to close on the 23th day I
thereof.-2. That all ca.b settlements be made on the second
of the month following the sale, or oettlemint by bill to be three
months' credit Isom the let of the mid month.-3. Agents are to he
allowed 3 per cent. for eale and guarantee commissions, and 21 per
cent. for cash.—t. All direct sales to manufacturers, or others., by
'
the spinners, to he allowed 21 per cent. for aoh.-5. Agents' receive
notes md invoice forms to have the word " agent," or " agents," as
the MAC may be, engraved upon them.
The people of Perth, regarding possession as nine-
tenths of the law, have helped themselves to 3001.,
for the relief of their own poor, out of the 3,7001. col-
lected for the relief of Highland destitution. As for-
merly stated the contributions of the fair city have
never been remitted to the central fund, so that the
Perth moneys are in a different position from those of
other places. Paisley, hearing that there was to be
a division of spoil, applied to Perth, but were referred
to Edinburgh, the great reservoir of contri-
bution. The Perth funds were lately demanded
by the central treasures, and there will
likely be some controversy raised about the
appropriation. Were St. Johnstoune's disposed to be
casuistical, doubts might be started as to what con-
stitutes the Highlands. No authentic map gives the
boundary line, and where given in graphic represen-
tations the demarcation has been made according to an
act of parliament against smuggling—no high autho-
rity, certainly, in geography or any other science.
Meanwhile isolated cases of discriminating liberality
are occurring among landlords, which like golden
grains deserve preservation and record. The i)uke
of Sutherland has again announced to his tenantry in
the district of Tongue, paying less than 101. of annual
rent, that he will give premiums to them far the first,
second, and third best and largest crops of turnips,
cabbage, carrots, leeks, and onions raised by them.
The duke's desire is, by this means, to stimulate his
tenantry to improve their garden cultivation. The
premiums vary from five shillings to one pound.
It was lately mentioned that part of the harbour
dues of Leith went for the payment of Edinburgh
ministers. It now appears that the Edinburgh mar-
riage fees gc, for the most part, fur the payment of
precentors, or leaders of psalmody in the established
churches ; with the view of avoiding payment of those
fees, parties frequently go to the bar of the police-
court, end acre declare themselves man and wife—to
the great annoyance of the magisterial mind for the
time being. The Lord Advocate's bill would, of
course, stop these irregularities ; but then, as in the
time of Hudibnui, we should have the men of song"
starting at the innovation on their dues.
Notwithstanding the losses caused by mining com-
panies, a nova one, according to the Ayr Observer, has
taken the in-nerds on the estate of Mansfield, near
New Cumno:k, which consist chiefly of coal, iron-
stone, and fife clay. In the same county, and at the
depth of abealt sixty fathoms, a seam of coal, 4 feet
thick, was last week discovered on a farm at Patna.
Two layers of two feet thick have also been found.
The main body of the coal is supposed to be at least
eighty fathoais deep. The proximity of iron mines
to those of coal will be valuable aids for increasing
the wealth, industry, and comfort of all interested.

DURUM, lAN. 20.

In the King's County the effect of the commission
in the neighbouring districts appears not very decisive
for good. The local paper states that a prurient
desire for fire-arms has seized the peasantry since the
posting of the proclamation. Scarcely a night passes
without the appearance of a band of marauders de-
manding arms. They do not calculate the result of
their folly. The descent of the commission very
likely awaits them at no distant day.
Mr. Mulvany, commissioner of public works, will
be shortly in Galway, to direct the immediate im-
provements on Lough Corrib. Thousands are waiting
for employment—hundreds at least will be gratified.
The guardians of the Killaraey Union have memo-
rialised the poor-law commissioners to reduce the
area of taxation from the electoral division to a lesser
unit, for the purpose of s'imulating employment. The
commissioners are restrained by the Poor-law Act from
granting the prayer of the memorial.
In reply to one of those numerous communications
which have passed between the North Union guard-
ians and the poor-law commissioners on the subject of
transmission and settlement, the commissioners state,
no Irishman can be legally removed from any Eng-
lish parish in which he shall have resided for five
years next before the application for a warrant of
removal. No Irishman, however, can claim a settle-
ment by a 'five year residence in an English parish.
Such residence only confers an exemption from liabi-
lity to be removed from the particular parish in which
the residence tcrik place.

SING CLAR Facre assexerrso A CRIMINAL.—The King's
County Chronicle contains the following details s.—On Thum-
day list a notorious character, named Patrick Collings, was
arrested by the Rapemills police, charged with killing and
stealing a sheep. the property of Mr. Patrick Sherlock, at
Liftmen, near lianagher. Ile had been committed to abide
his trial at the ensuing assizes. A few years since Collings
attained considerable notoriety, having been tried at Parsons-
tows quarter sessions, in October, 1841, for killing a goat.
Of this offence he was convicted; after which it was
found that the punishment awarded by the statute was
death ; our learned chairman very properly declined to
ptoononce that awful sentence ; he suspended judg-
ment with a view of consulting the law advisers of
the mien, who decided "that the law should take its
mane;" consequently, Collings was brought up for judg
meat at the January sessions' 11112, when the aaaiatant bar-
rage sentenced him to be hanged on th $ Bth of February
following. This was the first and only instance in Ireland
where the extreme penalty of the law was pronounced by •
court of quarter bewions, it being hitherto believed that that
power was alone vested in the judges of assize and general
gaol delivery. The punishment of death was subsequently
commuted to twelve months' imprisonment. This ease was
the LOCUS of drawing the attention of parliament to the state
of the law as regards this and other offences, the result of
which was—that it is not at present a hanging matter to kill
a goat in Ireland.

ALTAR DENUNCIATIONS.
We have abstained hitherto from giving currency to the
more inflamed lucubration, which have been fulminated
from the other side of the Irish channel on this subject. The
'blowing epiat e, however, from the Rev. 11. M'Dermott,
the Roman Catholic priest of Strokestown, presents a speci-
men of pastoral urbanity and meekness which is too cha-
racteristic to be pawed over. It was received in Nottingham
on Wednesday, in reply to an address of condolence that
had been transmitted to him by the Roman Catholic Aseotia-
tim of that town :
Becesotewn, lan. 15, ISIS -Gentlemen,-I have received In due
maw the congratulatory address which you have been kind enough
steward to me horn the Nottingham Cathodic Association. I have
tom unfeignedly to assure you, that I highly appreciate the strong
waresion of sympathy and personal esteem which that address offers
One to ml Pricent persecuted and calumniated position before the
Mash empire. I should hail with inexpressible satisfaction the public
Wenn of any portion it the English catholic church at a time when
tn soot conebted, and mat venerated catholic names amongst tie
2444, Peerage hose earned for theniseives no small share of unenvis
• ratiriety by their ...notation with the relentless enemies of my
erted and of mv country. The comprehensive and unequivocal contras
&hashish l'have given in my letter to the foul charge of Deniin-
-40a," 14h no room for cavil or for quibble, and still the calumny
▪ resmerted -the charge wen reiterated-the shifting and shuffling
of it 9 bbrieators had given it a new shape, and it came forth substan-
tiated and proved by the incoutruvertible evidence of a peer, who con-
fted his shame and his infamy under the guise of his anonymous
11,4411im, and warded off from his or. ler the indelible stigma of false-
hied Slid CAM:, by withholding his name from the public.
Out, this nameless, shameless, fameless peer I
Oh this truthless, ruthies, bootless pest I
ids estrilieed honour, integrity, end principle, for the political
=I of his party, and left upon record a crime the dia-
at which the waters of the Boyne can never wash away
hi weutcheon ! When this nameless peer's new err-
'''. sl /he charge appeared, the whole horde of my calumniators
11•1 1111._ the attack with increased virulence and rigour-they
mil the Spite of the orange kennel upon me-the bloodhounds
&M. upon me-they tore my flesh, and lapped my
those who should tare been silent, or should have
,Ten m 7 eons, were louder in their yelping, and more ferocious
their ?arming. Through this ordeal my conscientious eon-
vi:n. that I had Injured no man-that I had not prostituted my
deicers/aid my altar-that I had devoted myself to the
'Amy eh Mal duties-ignored by the world, and heedless of
.aware or 'applause supported me. and cheered me with the cans
ZMi,:liitit truth would ultimately triumph, and that the might nod
ty of justice scud] insure, in the end, the vindication of my
_,dawisr. Humble mid ihscure as I am, while I serve my Hod, and
tinter at his altar with an unseated onscience and a guiltless
1 slue not the pnlitieal censure, nor the Conscience,
cnticism
Zenbehest peer in England, who may vainly imagine that his
ortal baring, or busted heraldry, can invest him with such
let=mic,,_, win I supremacy as to involve the prelacy and palest-
=tf the esthetic church of Ireland In one sweeping, imbe-
=ds condemnation. I could almost weep to see the degenerate
of the Talbott., instead of standing up in the majestic
=wwe of tie lion-as the dauntless champion of his religion,
C.ll_ down at the feet of the Uritish minister, and licking his stingy
the fawning and cringing servility of a lap-dog, while he
irjb the whole Irish catholic church as • holocaust to his caprice
Itv7P°Licy. Can this be the boasted chivalry the transcendent
ire et
hung for centuries ever the ancient hall of Alton Towers!
Ice ,et to hope that the noble earl will revoke his dictatorial re-
44tthat Le si ck the refugo of the sanctuary-that he will
la wait the sad specimen pie has given the public

JEWISH PERSECUTION IN EDINRCROIL—A petition to
the folowner effect was read from Mr. Moses Jacob, at last
meeting of the Edinburgh Town-council :
The petition of Moses Jacob, one of the city feuars on George IV.
Bridge, humbly slieweth : That he is the proprietor of and occupies
No. 17, Candlemaker-row on which he has built a substantial atone
house, which cost upwardsl of I,oool.—the honest earnings of many
years' toil; that he bas to complain of a serious injury done to him
sad his family, consisting of his wife and four small children, which if
not put s stop to, will compel hint to leave Edinburgh for ever; that
this oppressive injury is indicted on him at home, and in other part.
of the city, by certain unprincipled abandoned hoe, who annoy and
insult him in the foulest and moat opprobrious Language, ten low
and vulgar to repeat, on account of his religious creed; that his op-
pressors have at times thrown stone into his shopariddwelling, one of
whi h unfortunately struck his wile and wounded her severely, which
confined her to bed during twelve months; that he has oodsionally
brought some of the delinquents before the pollee, when, after the
case hal been proved, these Juvenile disturbers of the peace have
merely got a reprimand; that such ientaor.al and cruel conduct Is not
allowed in London, nor in any other place in the British dominions,
towards the Jew subjects, who are a quiet, industrious, inoffensive
people,and who do not interfere with other creeds, nor attempt to
make roselyte, and it is a matter of history that wherever Jews
settle, the places prosper, because they promote trade; that the peti-
tioner is en extensive dealer and auctioneer; that he is a favourite
with the better order of society for his courteous, obliging, and liberal
conduct; and when he travels at fairs In the country, he is welcomed
and respected for his fair dealing; that, being a father himself,
he is fond and kind to his children, and when he is provoked
by the insults and behaviour of the wicked lade of Edin-
burgh, he speaks to them in mild terms, with • view to prevail on
them to lay aside and discontinue their cruelty ; that the local !notary
of the city prep that, for several ages, the youths of Edinburgh are
a mischievous set, who herd together to crowds, corrupt each other,
and even have murdered innocent citizeas, as they did in packs on
let January, 1811, for which threo of their number suffered; that in
these enlightened times, it le humbly hoped that the infiucnee and
authority of the provost and magistrates will accelerate a better
(cling in the minds of the lads of Edinburgh towards the persecuted
children of Israel, whose ancestors wrote by inspiration the Holy
Bible, the proper rule of faith far all mankind; and, in conclusion,
that the petitioner being an humble (rue on his lordship's °Meal
estate, coaaiders himself the better entitled to protection from the
outrages here complained of.
General sympathy. was expressed in behalf of poor Moses,
and inquiry ordered Into his persecution.
Istrouvasv JURY TRIAL.—On Monday last the Wood.
burnden succession, or Farrell case, was decided at Aber-
been, before Lord Ivory and a jury, after a trial of 14 days'
duration. The issue for trial was whether the pursuers
(Mrs. Willox and Mrs. Pope and husbands) or the defender
(Mrs. Farrell) were the nearest heir portioners of the late
Alexander Wood, of Woodburden. It appeared from the
evidence that in 1749, a man of the name of James Woe d,
a mason, settled in Karkton of Fetterero, near Stonehaven,
and, in 1755, married Margaret Barclay, by whom he had a
family of five sons and two daughters, none of whom were
ever married. The youngest eon, Alexander, emigrated to
Canada in 1793, where he accumulated a large fortune, and
returned to this country in 1542, taking up his residence
in hie mansion of Woodcut, where he died in 1811. Oa big
death it was Laud he had left no settlement, and that, con-
sequently, his nearest heirs would inherit his property ; and
after a long search, Mr*. Farrell, a granddaughter of a
sister of James Wood, was discovered by the late Mr.
Smart, solicitor, of Stonehaven ; and although her right was
disputed by another party, such was the evidence obtained
oy Mr. Smart, that no appearance was made consequently the art
ppoung. on the day. of trial, and Mrs. Farrell
entered into pouession in September, 181.5. The present
pursuers afterwards; set up their claim on the ground that
the father and mother of James Wood, of Fetteresso, were
George Wood and Jane Y ouug, ia the Brae of Kintore, so that,
in fact, the issue to be decided was, who was the father of James
Wood and the grandfather of Alexander Wood. A jury trial
took place in Edinburgh in October,lB46, before Lord Robert-
son, when a verdict was given for the defender, but after ap-
pealing first to the Court of Session, and then to the llou'e
of Lords, the pursuers obtained an order for a new trial on the
ground that the evidence of a witness had been illegally re-
jected. The case consequently came oa again for trial at
Aberdeen, as mentioned above, and after long and able
pleadings on both sides, the jury found a verdict for the de-
fender. Mr. fleas took an exception to the finding, on the
ground that evidence which had been taken by commission
for a former trial in this case ought not to have been used in
the present trial. The expenses will be enormous, the jury
alone receiving 1611. for their attendance.—The above is the
third hearing of the same case before a jury that has taken
place. Its magnitude may be judged of from the fact, that
in the present instance there were engaged six Edinburgh
advocates, four writers to the signet, eight solicitors? besides
involved
an agent on the part of the crown. The property
boa been variously estimated at fromps one,oool. to
h 90,0001.,t
jur any
d
considering all things, it is perhaof the eavies
trials that ever took place in Scotland. The celebrated Hut
Blast case, tried in 1813, occupied ten days, and, excepting
the above, ia the longest trial o mord,

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1848.

by a large majority might easily be inferred from a glance
at the body of the hall. Prom the nature of the opposition
there was much irrelevant matter introduced; so much so
indeed that we Gannet regard this as any demonstration of
the real feeling of the rate-payers of Leicester upon the ques-
tion of a national rate. Suffice it to say that Mr. Whet-
stone moved and Mr. J. H. Webb seconded the following re-
solution : ' That this meeting being convinced that the pre-
sent system of poor-law rating is very unequal, bearing, as it
does, on some perishes with ruinous weight, whilst other
perishes are but very lightly burdened, deems it necessary
to express its strong conviction that a national rate ought to
be adopted in the place of the present sprees of parochial
rating.'—Mr. G. Buckby then moved the following amend-
ment ' That in the opinion of this meeting
the manufacturers of this town engaged in the
hosiery trade have widely increased the rates of this
borough by the unnecessary reductions they have
made in the wages of their workmen, combined with
the heavy deductions made therefrom in the shape of
frame rents and charges, and have thereby decreased the
property of the tradesmen : and this meeting is further of
opiaion that if a national rate be laid, they will reduce still
further, well knowing they will have the whole country to
support the people whom they have pauperised.'—This
amendment having been seconded, Messrs. Bloodswortb,
Winks, and Brown, endeavoured to persuade the mover of
the same to withdraw it, but he refused, and its being carried
by a large majority terminated the proceeding' of a turbo.
lent meeting, which lasted upwards of three hours."
MORE VICTIMS TO LAUDANUM.—ChiId-killing by
laudanum has become so prevalent in Loughborough, that
Mr. J. Gregory, coroner, has intimated his inti.ution of re-
commending a committal for manslaughter, if another case
of the kind occurs. Two inquests were held on children
who had been killed by this narcotic on .Tuesday evening
the first at the sign of the Half Moon, on view of the body
of Thomas Slater, tined about three years. The grand-
mother of this child gave it a dose of laudanum en Saturday
afternoon, consisting, she said, " of eight drops," and it died
from the effects of the dose between two and three o'clock
the next morning. The second inquest was held at the
George the Fourth, Regent street, on view of the body of
Grace Taylor, daughter of Stephen Taylor, brickmaker.
This child was nearly six months old, and as it was rather
" wrangling" on Saturday night, its mother gave it " three
drops" of laudanum. It did not appear in either case that
the laudanum had been administered with an improper mo-
tive, but the parties conceraed were admonished never to
give any thing of the kind to children again, except under
the direction of a medical man, and the coroner wished the
reporters and the jurors to make it known as widely as pos-
sible that if death should result again from the incautious
administration of laudanum, it would be the duty of a jury
to commit the party administering it for trial at the assizes
on a charge of manslaughter. The verdict, in each case, was
in accordance with the evidence.

THE LEICESTER CEMETERY.—The government sur-
veying officer hu appointed the 4th of }ob. next to attend
at the Town-hall, in this borough, to make the usual pre-
liminary inquit lee in the matter, when both the promoters
and the opponents of the Bill, if there be any opponent, will
have to attend, and to produce all necessary witnesses and
plans fur sustaining their cue pro or rots.

LINCOLNSHIRE.
TIIE DEAD Atrve.-0a Thursday the 13th inst.,
the dead body of a man was discovered in the Grantham
Canal, and a jury was duly summoned by the borough co-
roner, for the following day, to " sit upon him " as " a per-
son unknown." On the inquest taking place, a witness
came forward who swore the deceased was a man named
Bradley, a travelling dealer in stationery, and although
another person insisted before the jury that it was not Brad-
ley, and was ready to make oath to that effect, both the
coroner and the jury were satisfied that the defunct
was in fact the Bradley in question, and returned
a verdict that he was " Found drowned," whereupon the
coroner issued an order for his burial. It appears, however,
that Bradley was lodging within five minutes' walk of the
Town Hall at which the inquest was held, and of course
was quite unconscious of the fate to which he had been con-
signed; and on Sunday morning, on Mrs. Bradley, the wife
of the supposed dead man, being told of what bad taken
place, she stated that it was just possible that an inquest
might have been held on her husband, but however that
might be, he had slept with her on the Irish), night, and
was perfectly well that morning. The town-crier meeeting
Bradley in the street, informed him that an inquest had
been held upon his remains upon the previous day; and
this roused inquiry, when it was discovered that the body
was that of Thomas Ballard, formerly of the Waggon and
Horses public-house, Sleaford, and lately living in Spittle-
gate, and the coroner was applied to, to correct the error
and order the right person to be buried, but this be declined
to do, saying, he had no power without another inquest, and
the order remained for the burial of Bradley—though it
need scarcely be said he objected to the ceremony's taking
place in his person, and Ballard was buried on Sunday in

DEATH FROM CARELESSNESS WITH MEDICINE.—
An inquest was held at East Retford, on Saturday, touching
the death of Cornelius Lambert. —Mrs. Jane Pringle said, I
am sist rain-law to the deceased, who has been unwell for
several days, and took to his bed on Saturday last; he was
attended by Mr. Allison, surgeon. On Thursday morning,
about eleven o'clock, I administered to him his medicine,—
he was to have taken a draught. I took up the bottle con-
taining the draught, and read the label, and was about to
give it to him, but he being rather impatient I laid it down I
again on the drawers, where, unfortunately, the other bottle
was, which contained the embrocation. I read the label in
the lint instance, but when I took it up again I did not read
it. The bottles were nearly of the earns size, and the
contents nearly of the same colour and smell. Ho then
asked me for the draught, and I took up the bottle
and gave him the conteate, which he immediately
took, and then exclaimed that I bad given him the
wrong medicine. On looking at the bottle I found that I had,
and upon discovering my mistake I immediately gave him
some salt and water, and sent for Mr. Allison. Mr. Allison
r and Mr. Mee were both from home at the time, and Mr.
William Gylby came. Mr. Lambert died at four o'clock on
Friday morning. There was no time lost in procuring
medical assistance after the mistake was found out. The
colour and size of the bottles were the same. The one
was labelled, " The embrocation to be used night and
morning; " the other, " Take the draught directly."
[We may observe, that this witness was most die
mused whilst giving her evidence, and appeared to be
suffering under the utmost anguish of mind at the unfor-
tunate mistake she had made.]—Mr. Allison, surgeon, said
the deceased was a patient of mine ; I was called to see him
about a week ago, and have attended him since. The em-
brocation was sent to him oa Wednesday last, and the
draught on Thursday morning, being the day previous to his
death. They were both of the same colour, and in bottles
of about the same size. The embrocation was of a poisonous
et, tore. Both bottles were labelled with the labels now pro-
duced ; and no doubt the taking the embrocation was the
immediate cause of his death. He was not suffering the
same morning from any other complaint likely to terminate
so soon as the next day. He was confined with rheumatic
fever. I saw the deceased soon after Mr. Oyiby had been
called in, and used the stomach pump. Ile was then quite
sensible, and said he did not blame Mrs. Pringle ; it was not
her !huh, but his own. He died at four o'clock on Friday
morning. Verdict—" Accidental poisoning."
SHROPSHIRE

CANDIDATE FOR THE NORTHERN DITIBION.-MT.

Whiteall Dodd, of Cloverley, Salop, hes been solicited by
the influential conservatives of North Shropshire to stand
for that division of the county, the representation et which
is vacated by the elevation of Lord Clive to the peers&e, and
that gentleman, we are happy to say, hes complied with the
requisition. Mr. W. Dodd, is a thorough conservative and
a sound churchman, and it would have been impossible to
select a gentleman more worthy of the distinguished hononr
about to be conferred upon him.

THE MARQUIS OF EXETER AND SIR G. HEATH-
COTE.—On the 24th August last, Mr. Wetherell, barrister,
who is also an Assistant Inclosnre Commissioner, was occu-
pied for the entire day at the Falcon-inn, Uppingham, in in-
vestigating the claims of the Marquis of Exeter and Sir Gil-
bert Heatbcote to manorial rights arising out of the inclosnre
of the parish of Pilton, under the General lnclosure Act.
Lord Exeter claimed to be Lord Paramount of the Hundred
of Wrangdyke (in which hundred the parish of Pilton is
situate), under some old grants and inquisitions; whereas
Sir Gilbert Heatbcote relied upon his claim not only by vir-
tue of an absolute conveyance to his ancestor in the year
1762, but also upon the fact of his !laving bad uninterrupted
possession from that date to the present period.—After
an examination of the court-rolls, grants, and other
documents, the commissioner called upon Lord Exeter's soli-
cit.,r to prove that there was waste and commonable land
within the parish out of which he could carve an allotment,
should he possibly ascertain that he was entitled to one ; but
as the solicitor was not prepared with this requisite evi-
dence, an adjournment was prayed for, and granted until
the 26th October, at Stamford, on which adjourned day the
same commissioner was occupied until late in the evening
in taking the examinations of witnesses, and he has recently
published his award, rejecting in tots the claim of the Mar-
quis of Exeter to be " Lord Paramount," and fully esta-
blishing the rights of Sir Gilbert Heathcote.

PAUPER SETTLEMENTS.—The guardians of Norwich
have for some time been bestirring themselves to effect
amendment in the present law of settlement, which they
have sli.wri presses with peculiar hardship upon that city, as
well as upon some of the more populous agricultural vil-
lages ; and a petition which they have presented to the legis-
lature states, " That at the time of passing the present act
an agreement subsisted between 66 parishes in neighbouring
unions in Norwich to relieve their respective non settled
poor, and that the sums repaid by such pari•lies to Norwich
during the year prior to that act amounted to 915/ 14c,
whilst in November, 1817, 34 of those parishes had wholly
withdrawn from that arrangement."...." That for the year
prier to the parsing of the said act, the sum paid for the
maintenance of nos-settled poor at Norwich was 1031. 12s. ;
whilst for the year ending at Michaelmas, 1847, the cum
paid for the same purpose was 3,9171. 18s. 6d., exclusive of
the maintenance of the non-settled poor in the workhouse
and incidenanl expenses amounting to a further sum of 7001.,
and that of the above sum of 3,9171. 18e. 6d., 3,2661. 12s. 6d.
was paid to aged and infirm persons, who may be termed
permanent poor." The petition also prays for a more equal
rating, and for the abolition of the Law of parochial settle-
ment. The guardians recommend the adoption of this yeti.
lion by every parish in Norwich • and so far as the parishes
have met the petition has been unanimously adopted in
vestry.