The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1846.

don as he could accommodate. The Admiralty barges
would be placed at their disposal. The party ould leave
, Southampton at half-past nine o'clock, and reach Oespart at
half-past ten.
The minutes of the previous general committee meetings
were read and confirmed.
Mr. TAYLOR read the following account of the number of
tickets issued at the Southampton meeting:—Old life sub-
scribers, 241 ; new ditto, 10. Old annual subscribers, 67 ;
new ditto, 19. Associates, 266 ; foreigners, 19 ; Ladle+, 198.
The receipts were—new life members 1101.; new annual
members, 781. ; associates, 2&61. ; ladies, 1981. ; Prince
Albert's contribution, 1001.; sale of books, 81. 4s. 84.
The recommendations of the Committee of Recommenda-
tion were then read as follows. Recommendations involv-

I late meeting in Cork, and which we give in another oolamn,
relative to a man, whose death, according to medical
authority, was occasioned by the use of diseased potatoes.
It is useless for the government to tell the people now they
do not wish to interfere with private trade, and will, there-
fore, leave the private trader to meet the demand. If this
be the determination of our rulers, we tell them they may
as well attempt to stern the tide with en egg-cup as pre-
serve the peace of the country. Indian corn meal is now
one shilling and eightpence per stone, an advance of two
pence a stone within the last three days. If other pro-
vision., therefore, rise at this rate, wo snould like to know
what family can support themselves, we speak not of the
labouring classes alone. The oat crop is not at all pro-
ductive—the yield is not anything equal to the past year,
and therefore if the people are left without a supply of
Indian corn meal, as they had last season, they will be
totally unable to live. We think it our duty to speak
out thus early, for it is by timely exertion en the part of the
government that the privations can be met, and that out-
rages can be prevented. If the Indian corn meal is freely
sold at a shilling a stone, and beyond this we consider it over
its value, the peace can be preserved ; but if the country be
left to private trade or speculation, we may dread the worst
oonsequenees. The people are determined, if such supply is
not afforded them, not to allow the corn of the country to
be exported, and, therefore, nothing but anarchy and con-
fusion may be looked kr."
THE TREASURY MINUTE.—The Relief Committee of
Bandon, in the county of Cork, have come to the following
resolution with respect to the impracticability and inatie-
qu icy of th. Treasury Minute, which the Daily News 6111
ESprell were the first to publish :

ing grants of money
Kew Observatory, 1501.
MATHEMATICAL AND POSSIC AL Scrrecca.—Fxman, E. Computation
of (Mussian condants ",continuation), SOL Birt, W., Itescarclus in
Atmapheric Nave., 101. Robinson, Rev, D.,Construction of a new
Anemometer, 10!. Committee, completion of .datomies of gto .res, for
which Government had granted 1,000 f., but whth required 70!. to

conrolete, 701.
SCIENCI.—Percy, Dr., Researches and Report on
Crystalline Drugs, &e., 201. Shunt-, Professor, on Colouring
Matter, lid.
ZOOLOUY ANDBerr v.-v.—Rt./41=d. It. E., on Vitality of Seeds. IM.
Padlock, Captain, on the Marine Zooicegy of Corfu, 101. Lemon, Sir
C., Marine Zuslogy of Cornwall, 10/. Forbes, Profewor, 31:triue
Zoology of Britain, 101. Egerton, Sir P., Habits of Marine Animala,
101. Spencer, W., Scorpion, ditto, and Arachnids. Owen, Professor,
Tabular Forms for RegistwriWg Phenomena, 10/.
Psysomociy.—Blake, Dr., Physiological Action of Medicines, 201.
Total grants recommended, 410!.
Recommendations not involving grants of money :
Remain To or waist oa coerverso. —On the Theory of Move-
ments and Displacements of the Earth's Crust, by W. Hopkins, Eat.,
M.A., Ice. On the Static and Dynamic Fact., which have been ooh--
served to be the results of Earthquakes, by It. Mallet, Dsq., Pres. G. S.
of Dublin. On the State of Knowledge of the Acalephre, by Professor
E. Forbes. On the State of the Science of Naval Architecture, includ-
ing Steam Navigation, by John i. Russell, IN., M.A. On the Recent
Progress of Analysis, by R. Ellis, F.sq.
Rastas:ads—With the actinograph, by R. Hunt, Esq. and F.Ronalds,
Esq. ; on the influence of light on the growth of plants, by It. Hunt,
L.,,,h,g,0n the corrosion of iron rails, by It. Mallet, Req.
Dr. Wherell be requested to draw up brief instructions for
tide observations by voyages'.
That Dr. Whored and Sir James Ross be requested to draw up a
plan for a naval expeclitian. for the purpose of completing our know-
ledge of the process of the tales.
' That the following communications presented to this meeting be
printed entire in the transactions of the association —lie, Forchammer
on sea currents, and Professor Owen on cranial vertebra..
That section G be re-united to sectka A, and that the section be
denominated the Section of Mathematical, Physical, and Mechanical
Science.
That application be mate to her Majesty's government for a careful
Purvey of the so-called parallel roads of Glen Boy in reference to hurt.
zontaiity, parallelism, elevation above the sea, as.
That application be made to her Majesty's government to have pub.
fished the neteorolnzicai Gh.erVatiCAll which have bars made be the
officers of the Irish TriFOIROMILLiCaI SUIVVy at islountjoy and the
l'izeon-house since the year 1834.
Resolutionsadopting these recommendations were proposed
and carried.
On the motion of Col. SYKES, seconded by Col. SEADWELL
CLEKXE, Col. Sabine was re-appointed General-Secretary,
John Taylor, Esq., Treasurer, and John Phillips, Esq.,
Assistant-General-Secretary for the ensuing Tear. The
following list for the committee of the London General
Council was also resolved :—Ansted, lie la Hectic, Sir 11., S.
Clerke,Forbes,Graham,Grover, Hamilton, Leonard Horner,
Heywood, Herschell,Sir J., IbbOtson, Latham, Hopkins, Hut-
ton:Lemon, Sir C., Northampton, the Marquis of, Richardson,
Sir J., Itoget, Robinson, Ross, Royal, Strieklund, Sykes,
Thompson, Wheatston, Williams, Willis, Furter, and Tooke.
Auditors—Amsted, Willis, and Clerks.
The PRESIDENT, in closing the his-iness of the meeting,
congratulated the Association on the harmony that had
prevailed during the whole of the Southampton meeting.
Not a single point of dissent had arisen, nor had nytYng
occurred to interrupt for a moment the pursuit of science.
He had now to declare that the business of the meeting sous
adjourned to Oxford, where they would amenable on the
2-sth of June next.
A vote of thanks was passed to the President, and the

That whilst we fully admit the necessity of using every safe and
wacticableprecaution, by which labourers may be prevented limn
limning their ordinary employments, fur those on public works, yet,
considering the vastly increased price at which the food of the
labouring chose. must necessarily hew forward be procured, eonse.
quent upon the change from a cheap, and in most uetances a self-
! raised food, the potato, to one procurable by money only. we deem the
rule laid down in the Treasury Minute, "That no perste should
' be employed on any relief works, who may be able to obtain
I empkiyment on other public works or in fanning or in ether private
, operations in the neighbourhood," as one, which. in the present pent-
' liar circumstance; of the country, it will Le inexpedient, strictly' or
IPA a general sue, to observe ; inasmuch as iu the great matority of
ea-tea the wages whic:l must nee marily be given, in order t ; enable
the labourer henceforth to obtain food, WA grneraliy speaking;
exceed the actual return which that labour will yield, and cannot,
therefore Le expected to be ordinarily given by those who must look
to receiving a profit from the wages which they may pay. That on
the game grounds, we consider the Rule whkh directs That the
wages given to persons on relief works shall, in every
instance be, at least, two gene a day less than the average
rate of wages in the district. is one altogether deitruetirc of the
principle of relief, and is one which cannot even tar an hour be, with
safety, pat into opengion in this district. That we have ,atialied
ourselves from calculations made by us this day, that the usual rate of
wages in this district, six., eight-loner per day, will, so soon As the
people shall have cowed to use potatoes as food, do little more than
stAoe to give feed to two adults, at the ChL.allVot rate in food, which
we consider, we can safely calculate UpOil, and we coasiderit as rather
a low rate to estimate in this district, that three adults will hare to
depend on the labour of each labouring man for their support. Hence
it would appear that eleven-pence per day will, as an average
rate, be required as wages for the purpise of snpyl)iaf fwd
only. That under curb circumstann'is it appears to us
to be indispensable, either that the rates of warns stud: he raised, in
all cases where the tabourer shall be found dependent un his Lthuur
for support, to • standard equal to the rise in the price of the food on
which he is to ire supported; or, that that food shall be sea cared for
him at a price equal to the wages which he ran earn ; and thus view-
ing the case, we cannot but consider that "The Rule," which " haste-
/sew-ably" directs "that relief tensing tees shall not yell meal or otter
food provided by them, save as ;mark I s possible at the market prices
which prevail in the neighbourhood," shall be modified, to us to leave
a discretion to the local committer to act, in this respeet, as circum-
stances may require.

The Darer of the 89th, or Connaught Rangers, stationed
in Castlebar, has been just removed from that station, and
replaced by a party of the 79th Highlanders. There are
very many Mayo men in the 88th, and this act is looked
upon with great suspicion by the people, as they gay it has
been done with a coutemplatiun of the probable action el the
military against the people in the ensuil season of scarcity.
TIIE MARKETS IN THE WEST.—YNIWTJay I forwarded
to you a statement of the market prices of piovi,ions in
Sligo; the following has reference to the neighbouring
county of Mayo :—Provi-ions have risen enormously in ttis
town and county. Oatmeal, which was selling at lie. during
the worst part of the famine consequent upon the failure of
last year's potat 7es, has this day risen to las. fah per cwt., in
the teeth of an abundant corn harvest. Tic government
stores are besieged by applicants (principally wu:nen) seek-
ing to purcha-e Indian ince' ; and, in consequence of the
faulty arrangements of the police, are kept incrowds waiting
for one, two, and three hours before they can get half a stone
of Indian meal (the largest quantity given to any one per-
son), thouili paying, for it alull remunerating price.
OCTILLOE.—About eleven o'clock on Friday night, as a
car, laden with corn, the property of Hugh Singleton, Esq.,
of Ilazlewood, county of Clare, accompanied by two care-
takers, was proceeding to the market of Limerick, on reach-
ing a place known by the name of Moll Ryan's Cross, situate
between Knoppou'e and Rathluha, the men were pelted
with stones !row behind Carat!. While they were running
to the opposite side for shelter, a shot was tired from the
same direction that the stones came from, and the horse
wounded in the side by slugs. The men immediately turned
the horse and brought back the load of corn.
AUDACIOUS PRUCL INIATION.—A notice was petted up at
Miltown, of Clare, last week, offering a reward of 501. to any
person who would shoot • young gentleman of the veinity,
whose name was given.
COL. BLACK Blacker has had the honour of an
autograph intimation from Lord Besboruugh that he should
be restored to the commission of the peace, a circumstance
which has given consideralde umbrage to the Repeaters, in-
asmuch as none of those repeal magistrates had such distinc-
tion permitted them.
FACTION FIG man named Brahma was killed last
week, in a faction light, or tight between tire opposing
parties of peasantry, at Kildysart, county of Clare.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday last an accident, termi-
nating fatally, occurred at the brewery of Mr. Samuel Lane,
Cork. A man named Daniel Ford, in descending into • vat
where foul air had accumulated, became overpowered very
speedily, and fell to the bottom. A fellow labourer named
Sullivan went dos n for him, but he also was overpowered.
In about an hour both were taken out, but Sullivan never
I recovered. _ _ _

meeting broke up.
There is to be a concluding general meeting of the whole
society tonight, at eight o'clock, at the Vic•oria Rooms.
The sectional rooms were moderately well attended to-day,
but a room called the model roost at the mechanical section,
where arc exhibited some clever models by Mr. Wilde, one of
which, a model of Alen, formed of common rouTh clay, is
curious, as showing from the position of that town and its
fortifications natural and artificial, that the report which
appeared receirly in some of the London papers that the
Arabs had approached to the very gatca of Aden must neces-
sarily be incorrect. There arc also in this room working
models of Ainslie's tile-cutting machines and some sped-
meus of poplins, embroidered with gold, sil:er, and coloured
silks, into the most novel and beautiful p.-stems. Those
which are manufactured in Ireland it is said have been ex-
tensively patronised by Iler Majesty.
The public dinner of the members of the association yes-
terday was very fully attendcd. The chair scoo tilled by Sir
It. Murchison, and near him were the Marquis of Northamp-
ton, the Dean of Winchester, SirJ. Herschel!, Sir C. Lemon,
and most of the distinguished professors, English and
Foreign, who have been present at the Southampton meet-
ing. A rumour prevailed up to the dinner hour that Lord
Palmerston would dine with the association on this occasion :
hut this turned out to be unfounded. The toasts were "The
Queen, Prince Albert" (special r. ference being made by
the President to the patronage which her Majesty and the
Prince bad extended to the science and the arts, and to a
declaration made by his Royal Highness that it was by
these unions of scientific men that the great ohjects of science
were promoted), "The Navy soul Arinv," " The Mayor mid
Corporation of Southampton,' and "'t h e President." The
three latter were acknowledged by Col. Coleby, Capt. Allen,
the Mayor and Sir It. Murchison respectively.
Sir It. Wool Nos, in returning thanks, expressed his
deep gratitude to the association for heving elevated him to
a position to which he had not dared to aspire—that of their
president. He assured them he felt the value of the testi.
mony of their approbation of his conduct. Some there wen.,
he knew, who said that the British Association was a failure ;
if it could be truly alk:red that those who presided over it in
the various di liniments were not capable of demonstrating
those branches of science they cultivated, he would admit
that the associatinn was a failure; but lookiag at the results,
at the many great names enrolled among its professors, and
the claims it hail established in discoveries and improv:ments
in science, which but for the society probably never would
have been made, he would say to those persons, there is uo
ground far their criticisms. (Hear, hear.) Truth was
strong, and would triumph. The British Association
stood forward upon a great principle, and must
prevail. " Tempora inutabuntur." (Cheers.) He had
one toast more to propose, that was the health of all the
eminent foreigners who had attended the meeting. The
toast was drunk with three times three, Professor Oersted
acknowledging the compliment; and the party separated at
eight o'clock.
Later in the evening Mr. Groves lectured upon the Cotton
fire, and exhibiting several specimens, showed its applica-
bil,ty to all purposes for which gunpowder is used, it being
more certain of igniticn, producing little or no smoke, and
leaving no residuum. This was followed by an explanation
of the Professor's discovery of a mode of dissolving water by
heat, and separating and attaining, without combining them
with any other substance, the hydrogen and oxygen of which
that fluid is composed.

MALICIOUS Fine. The little haggard of a Roman
Catholic curate in Mayo' containing a few small stac`...s of
corn, suflicient to feed his horse for the winter and himself
with oatmeal, has been maliciously set on fire and consumed
BALLOON ASCENT.—Mr. Hampton is about to make his-
second ascent this year, and has fixed the hour at about 4
o'clock to-day. The same hour was fixed for his ascent last
week, and having been punctual to his time, he apologized
the next day by puldie advettisement for that unusual cir-
cumstance, ,sagely stating that it was in consequence of the
presence of the Lord. Lieutenant, whom he did not like
to keep waiting. We have therefore very little hopes of his
ascending to-day before post-time. as he will no doubt make
amends for his previous punctuality, more apecially as
thousands are already thronging to the scene, both sides of
Sarkville-street being at this moment (half-past 4 p.m.) lite-
rally a moving crowd. Windows of upper floors are filled
all down the street and neighbourhood, and the gallery at
the top of Nelson's Pillar is crowded with spectators, one
adventurous individual having perched himself upon the
remaining arm of the hero of Trafalgar. It is rumoured
that Isle. Hampton is to be accompanied by two gentle-
men of distinguished rank. We can answer for one
of them. The distinguished individual drives a very high
gig, with a dangerously high seat, covered with a dark buffalo
hide, edged with red vandykes. A huge Newfoundland
dog runs underneath the preposterous vehicle. The
gentleman keeps a dashing tobacco and cigar shop in
Grafton.strect. Who the other gentleman of rank may
be, we do not at present know, nor what the fate of the
parties may he. The sky, however, is tolerably clear, and
there is but little wind. Five o'clock—The halloon is up,

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, SEPT. 15,
DISTRESS IN MAYO.—Under this head, a correspondent
of the Freeman's Journal furnishes us, through the columns
of that paper to-day, with the following information:
" Castiebar, 12th SepteirNT, late.
" A very numerons meeting of magistrates and depute .lieutenunts
of this county. we, held hem this der, in the grand Jury room of the
courthouse, in pursuance of a circular addressed to them for that
purpose by the Lot of Lucan, lieutenant of Mayo. Anvmgnt those
who attended I dawned the Marquis of Sligo, Earl of Lucan, Colonel
Knox Dare (lieutenant of Sligo county!, Sir R. A. O'Donnell, Fart.,
Sir William O'Malley, Knight, Valentine O'Coaor Blake, Andrew
Crean Lynch, Geottry Martyn, Michael B. Bermingham' John
Brown, Courtney Kenny, Colonel John Browne, Walter J. Burke,
Denis Bingham, Thomas V. Clendenning, John Garvey, Bowe.
and about forty other magistrate, from all parts of the county. The
meeting was held it ith closed doors, the reporters for the public press
and all other persona being refused admittance. The object of the
meeting (es stated in Lord Leon's circular) was to consider the dia.
tressed state of the county, in consequence of the loan of the potato
crop. One would imagine that upon a subject of so publicly and vi-
tally important a nature, in which the lives of million. were at stake,
all ;caret deliberations should have been avoided, and there were not
wanting persona who, in consequence of the were.- observed.
denominated the proceeding as a meetirg of landlord.; to consult
with each other as to their men intermits, which some of them
have only Mat dimoyered are likely to lie seriously affected by
the recent legislative enactments for the employment of the
labouring population of Ireland. The magietralt . continued in deli-
beration fur nearly three hours, and the nublesta diseu...l, as well as
I could ascertain them from some of the magistrates who were pre-
sent, in casual conversations subs-equent to the meeting, were to the
following effect :
First—That the landlord who might be disposed to swill himself of
the recent Drainage Act, by borrowing money from goverment, to
employ his teramtry and improve his property, and thereby increase
its value, would, under the subsequent act, called the Labour Rate
Act, be placed in a worse position than the landlord who declined
to avail himself of the Drainage Act, and of course gave no
employment to his tenantry, because the repayments to govern-
ment were, by and under the Labour Rate Art, charged alike
upon the lands of the improvitie and unimproving landlords,
thereby in effect emepelling the improving landlord to pay an in-
ereatiea proportion of these re-payments in consequence of the in-
creased value of his property, while he had at the same time to
repay government toe monies advanced to enable him to effect these
imurovemente ; thus doubly teeing him, as it were, as a penalty for
giving employment to his teriantry.
Secondly—That the libeur rate act, if put in execution to the extent
which would be requisite to give employment and fond to the enor-
mous number of families who stand m need of It, would in its effect,
be an almost confiscation of property, mid be productive of di.aetrous
eeneequeneen to all landlords, but particularly so to those wh,,se pro-
perties are encumbered or embarraseed, and it was added the tenant
must suffer accordingly.
`v—That government did not seem to be fully aware of the
.
and

just rising over the tops of the houses, and the aeronauts, 01
the two " distinguished :um of rank," are now launched on
their

voyage.

SCOTLAND.
Tux EARL or MANSFIELD has consented to act as Preses
of the Royal Caledonian Hunt Meeting, which commences
on the 6th of the ensuing month, at Perth, and Viscount
Duplin, of the let Life Guards, and P. S. liier, Esq., are to
officiate as stewards on the same occasion.
SCHOOL-1 FOlt FEEDING AS WELL AS TEM lIING INDI-
GENT CHILDREN.-A meeting was recently held at Dundee,
for the purpose of forming establishments somewhat similar
to the Ragged Schools of London, but more akin to the In-
dustrial schools et Aberdeen. Of these their founder, She-
riff Watson, gave the following account society was
formed at Aberdeen, for obtaining subscriptions, to be
applied in paying school fees for vagrant children, et any ,e-
-miners themselves might select. fhe plan only partially
succeeded; and after investigation it turned out that that
arose from the poverty of the parents, and that offering their.
children education without tood, was giving them a stone
instead of bread. In fact, it was found that food was neces-
sary to carrying on the operation successfully. How to
maintain so many vagrant children was the question. lie
(Sheriff Watson) proposed to opon a school for feeding
and educating them. The scheme was generally con-
sidered a benevolent but an extremely absurd one. The
question generally put was, "Do you mean to feed and
educate ail the young beggars in Aberdeen i" After talking
over the matter for about a year, a few of the friends of the
scheme met and subscribed 1001. Of that SUM 60/. was
raised at the time of subscription. It was proposed that they
should commence operations immediately by opening a school
for CO boys. This was agreed to, so they told the police to
send them a dozen or two of the worst boys they could catch,
and in five hours they had 7d scholars. Of these only four
could write and fourteen read. This was a miserable state
of things. The children were kept at school all day, during
which they were fed three times, and told to go home in the
evening, and to remember that, if_they did not come back
- -
• in

remove that dass from one temptation to the commission of
crime.--In accordance with the resolutions put and agreed
to, a society was f,rmed for extending the blessings of these
schools to Dundee. I

DISTRESS IN TEE WESTERN HIOKLANDS AND ISLANDS
OP SCOTLAND.—Durino the last week we (Scottish Guar-
dian) had an opportunity of witnessing, in 'tome measure,
the extent of the failure of the potato crop in the Western
Highlands ; and the rnsult satisfied us that so far from the
evil having been exaggerated, it is impossible for any one
who has not seen its devastations to form an adequate idea of
its extent. The truth is, that throughout the Western High-
lands and Islands the potato is extinct. Some of the people
are reduced to one meal a-day of the coareest fare. Others
are living on shell-fish, and eking out their wretched meal
withsea-weed. Many are parting with their pigs, because they
are unable to feed them; and the pittance they receive for
them is all that stands between them and want. Poor peo-
ple arc selling their cows for the same reason ; and some are
reduced to the sad alternative of disposing of their boats. In
some of the islands disease has already appeared in the most
aftlictiv,: forms, but too evidently resulting from inadequate
or unwholesome food. Inthe island of Tiree, this is already the
case to an alarming exent ; and there is no disguising the fact,
that unless something be done immediately with the view of
affording supplies of food to the inhabitants of the islands
generally, consequences will inevitably and speedily ensue,
which it is revolting to every humane iniad to contemplate.
The Free Church Synod of Argyll sent a deputation last
week to the Lord Advocate, to urge upon his attention, and,
through him, that of her Majesty's government, the clamant
state of the Highlands and Islands.
GAINS OF IkIINERS.—AinDnIE.---We believe that there
never was a time when the mining population had such a
golden opportunity as they have just now of providing
both for present wants and laying aside a little st.we
to serve for future contingencies. We are called upon
to record an instance in proof of this assertion, which
may he favourably contrasted with the inebriety, im-
proli,ience, and consequent poverty that prevail to an
alarming extent in this populous locality. A steady re-
spectable miner residing in a village not far from this
town, with the assistance of his three sons, one ct whom
is but a boy, hag earned during the four weeks ending sth
September, the sum of 30/. is., besides having a day or two
of idle time. The total amount of their united earnings is
alw,vs paid down in hard cash by their masters, who hove
all along adopted this method both for preventing murmur-
ings amongst the men, ana avoiding the infringement of the
laws.—Glasgow Herald.
TOURISTS.—INCIDENT ON BEN LOMOND.—The number
of tourists visiting the hills and lochs of the west of Scotland
is: this year uncommonly large, owing in a great measure
to the fine weather, and to the material advantages of
hotels, inns, and conveyances of all sorts. A few days
ago, not fewer than from thirty to forty, including tourists
from America and from the continent of Europe, well us
from every one of the kingdoms of the United Empire, were
at one time ascending Ben Lomond. On Saturday last, an
American lady and gentleman hod been on the bill, and the
latter had stopped a short time to make a sketch, while his
companion proceeded downward. In • few minutes he
followed, hut was unable to make up with her; and
having gone down some distance began to tear an
mistake had occurred ; ha again useended, and searched,
lint could find no trace of her, and ultimately hurried dwelt
to the inn. Immediate measures were taken, and numer-
ous parties were gathered from all quarters around, includ-
ing tonrista, villagers, and shepherds, and they set ut in
search of the lady. They ascended to the spot where she
had been last seen, and then divided into small groups,
setting off in every direction. The search wan continued
during the whole night, and she was at last discovered by
one of the guides about seven o'clock on Sunday morning,
fully twelve hours after her friend had parted with her.
She hod during the night, after discovering that she had
lost her way, most prudently kept herself awake by throw-
ing stones, and although very weak whe• found, no fears
are entertained of her suffering materially. The satisfaction
felt by her relathe on her recovery may be conceived.—
Gree neck, Adrerliaer.

PROVINCIAL.
LANCASUIRE.

THE COBDEN NATIONAL TESTIMONIAL.—During the
week this fund has increased from 72,300/. to 73,400 i. To
this increase the Manchester district has contributed
2•0/. Is. fid.; Huddersfield, 620 g. lbs. ; Wigan, 271. ; Mali.
fax, 901.; the miscellaneous contributions amounting to 711.
The total increase since our last report has been I,lols. Ifis. Gd.
The subscription from Huddersfield was accompauied by a
subscription 01100/. to the Bright Testimonial. Among the
subscribers during the week arc Dr. Andrew Combe and
George Combe, Esq. of Edinburgh, each of whom has con-
tributed 101. to the furl. Three hundred and seventy two
places throughout the kingdom have now been supplied with
collection books and cards. There seems no doubt whatevet
that the Cobden tribute found will amount to 100,000!.
PRESENTATION OF I'LATI: TO THI: EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
OP TIIE LENGUE.—At the hut meeting of the general coun-
cil of the League, the following was one of tne resolutiota
unanimously agreed to :
"'that the members of the executive council of the League are en-
titled to the warm,t gratittii:e of the League and of the country, for
their high principkv, Ishorimei rind most iweeessful exertions during
the sever, rears of our emptitutiinal agitation • and that a committee
be appoiraill, condsting of Jo.eiolt Itrotherun, Esti., M.P., and such
gentlemen as he may aonuciate to Itiot..ll; to di•ternum spoil mine
outt.s,,le 1,ti0t.r.,31 to be in..seuted to those gentienien out of the
funds of the Leagni.."
During the interval that has elapsed since the great final
meeting, steps have been taken for the purpose of eirrying
out the above resolution. It was decided that each member '
of the executive council (except Mr. George Wilson, ti
whom 10,000/. was voted at the great meeting in the
Town Math) should be presented with an appropriate piece
of silver plate. The executive council, including Mr. Wil-
son, chairman of the League, consisted of eight gentlemen,
and the order having been completed it was fixed that the
plate should be presented to the seven gentlemen for whom
it was provided on Saturday last. Accordingly, a *elect
party sat down to tea on that evening, in the council-room
of tie League, Newall's Buildings, Market-street.—The
chair was oecupiel by Joseph Brotherton, Esq., M.l°. for
Salford, and amongst the gentlemen present were Mr. A.
Prentice, Mr. W. Evans, Mr. W. Ilickham, Mr. S. Lees,
Mr. H. Rawson, Mr. W. Rawson (the treasurer), and Mr.
T. Woolley, all members of the executive council, and in
whose honour the meeting was convened. Tea over, the
chairman, after alma appropriate observations, presented
to each of the nix first-named gentlemen a tea and colfee
service of silver plate, consisting of a kph:maid tea urn, tea-
pot, coffee-put, eugar-brein, cream-jug, and salver. To Mr.
Thos. Woolley, whose Idly shout four or five years ago
received a present of a silver tea service, in consequence
of her exert, ne at a bazaar, held about that time in Man-
chester, were presented splendid silver candelabra. The
gentlemen who received the gilts, acknowledged them in
becoming :addr.!sses. On the plate are devices, representing
wheat sheaves and ships, emblematical of free-trade. The
tops of the covered pieces of plate are formed of elegant
sheaves of wheat, and look remarkably well. The salver
presented to Mr. Prentice, contains the following inscrip-
tion :
"Preentell by the National Anti-Corn-law League, to ARCHI-
BALD PRENTICE, IST, a member of the executive council, in
acknowledgement of his patriotic and arduous laloirs to the struggle
for commercial frervimm—ttantliester, July 2nd, TSl6."—(With a tea
urn and clifee servims)
On each of the other pieces of plate presented to Mr. Pren-
tice were the initials A. I'. The inscription upon the other
presents was the same with the exception of the name. The
value of the plate given to each of the gentlemen is 1251., or,
in the whole, 8711.
AN INEORSIATIoN UNDER THE FACTORIES ACT was
heard at Hyde, on 'Monday, against J. Worth, a self-acting
minder at the mill of Meows. Ashton, of Naughton Dale, for
allowing a boy, named Grim haw, to clean between the fixed
and traversing part of the machine while it was in motion,
by which means the youth narrowly escaped with his life.
Mr. Trimmer stated that while the boy was cleaning on the
lot inst. he was caught by the machine a little below the
cars, rend seas very severely hurt. The space between the
machine where his head was held fast was only five inches
when the mule bad run up, and he was assured by the our-
peon that had the lad been caught a little more towards the
middle of the head he would most certainly have been killed
on the spot. The inspector called the boy, who suited that
the defendant compelled him to clean while the machine WI/ ,
in motioa, by threatening to send him home. This ee,
denied by the defendant. The boy stated that he had to
clean four times a day, and the defendant very seik mai
and costs; and as he persisted in declaring that he would
stopped while be did so. The bench ennvicted him ;
.n 21,
never pay this sum, he was committed to Knutsford for ea
weeks.
THE NIIIIIER OP VOTERS on the Manchester be rgesn mu
of last year was 10,015. This year 633 additiona' burgesses
have been placed en the list, making the number
for the next
near 11,148. There are no objections, the overt aces omitting
the names of all parties whom they know to T disqualified;
and about thirty new claims. The revision will take place
early next month.
CHARGE OP ASSAULT AGAINST A CAPS' UN op DRAOOON.s.
—On Tuesday, at the Borough Court, ianchester, Captain
Lowe, of the 4th Dragoons, was elm- ;gad with an ...milt
upon Thomas Garner. It appeared fee
,m the statement of the
complainant and a witness whom he
called, a
rat, and three
that, oa Monday
week, they went into the barrack-y
dogs coming round them, the re t ard with
was put down and killed
by the dogs; that the defendant
twenty yards dawn the bare* .followed complainant about
ck-lane and beat him severely
with a stick. Complainant
which exhibited marks evere punishment.—'the captain
did not attempt to deny t'
that he did strike the our iplainant severely. He was dress-
left
ing, he said, when the r anphainant and his companion came
.tte. nenstripped
assault, but thrai'n shoulder,
admitted
into the yard, Gad W mated in enticing a favourite terrier
out of the stelae, thee igh he (defendant) shunted to them to
go about their bus.inr„ss. As they would not be off, but set
the - "
with than, he ran

Thirdly— , government 0111 shn ......,. __
extent of the existing and forthcoming dostatution, ./ hadiatM.ltic again and --- - ---- ---, - - - ---•--- -- --, - -
n were found begging in the streets, they would be .—.. dogs upon a rat , which they brought
suMcient provision to meet the calamity. ,
subjeet to the same treatment. They all came back joyfully, down from his "dressing room, which was about 15 yards
Fourths —'That In order to enlighten the government upon these
ana from that day (19th May, 1845), not a child had been from the stably door, and caught the complainant just as
several ts, and to induce them to grant additional reßef in the
shape o some great national works, such as railuaYs, fs:e, Ku, a seen begging in the streets of Aberdeen. The ladies of Aber- he got out o', the yard.-Mr. Maude said, there was no
deputation should proceed to London immediately, to wait upon Lord deen established • girls' school on the same plan, which doubt that the men had no business in the barrack-yard,
John Russell an.l other members of the government. contained 60 pupils, whose only claim of admission was and that
The deputation named were-the Marquis of Sligo, the Earl of their destitution, and he would venture to say there upon the they •
went for the purpose of setting the dogs
defend-
Lucan, the High Sheriff (P. C. Lynch, Esq.), Colonel Knox Gore, and isnot better conducted A • adschool in Britain. After a tter conauct_
. . . rat they took with them ; still, when the
Sir Richard A. O'Donell, Bart. The deputatMn will not prooced towarned them off and they were going, he svas not
London mud alter the adjourned county meeting, to be held on these SUCCeSSIAS the Sheriff presented a petition to the just ed in assaulting the complainant in the manner stated,
the l7th. Lord Provost to call a public meeting of the inhabitants, to Led the bench must mark its sense of the offence, by fining
STATE OF CLARE.-The Clare Journal, a Conservative consider the subject. is lordship consented, and agreed to 1 I:e.rt defendant 20s. and cost,..-The money was immedi itely
paper, thus speaks of the condition of that county, and of the preside. The meeting was numerously attended, chiefly by paid.
prospects of the people: "We feel it absolutely necessary, the working people, who appointed a committee of HP BREACH OF PROMISE OF MAItItIAGE.-OR Thursday last
from the present state of the country, to call upon the persons to manage the getting of subscribers and to act •as an inquiry of damages, in an action for breach cf promise of
government to take immediate and decisive steps to satisfy collectors. In a short time they had on their lists 4
,000 marriage, was held in the County Court, before Mr. Brandt,
' the clamours of a starving people. Provisions are rising in subscribers, and the sum raised was 2601. This wet ',cot up assessor. The action was brought by Miss Harriet Cooke,
price every day. As for potatoes, there are very little indeed in small SUMS, in shillings sixpence!, and pent,, One daughter of a gentleman residimi at Chorlton-upon-Medlock ;
in market, and it is almost dangerous to make use of those working man, on being cuffed upon and asked to become a and the defendant was a Mr. Samuel Turner, who, a short
offered for sale. Not one stone of potatoes can be obtained, subscriber, gave ..uswer that he paid Bs.a-year et, his minister time since, carried on business as a silk-dyer, at Collyhurst,
without some of them being found tainted ; and even those without a grudge, and without feeling hit:yell any poorer but is now superintending an establishment in Manchester.
bring eevenpence-halfpenny. Indeed, we are strongly in- for it, and he should not grudge to give 4s. to the support of The plaintiff is about thirty years of age, and the defendant
dined to believe that, for the sake of their health, the people the industrial schools. Let every workitg man in Dundee about forty. For twelve mouths an intimacy existed between
should not be any longer allowed to use this diseased fwd. be animated by the same spirit, and they would find suffi- the parties, whicheventually ripened into love. But although
We direct attention to a circumstance mentioned at the cient funds to educate and feed the destitute, and thus the defendant had promised the plaintiff marriage, had