The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1848,

- —Theßoy 1G,,,,,NA. a asette says, in its review
kubigov"—tistlee:
--dolt swam to ray that great distress exists in the colony
I:Low aegiiing is doing in the way of mercantile Burins
110"....., on agriefahural it is intramilble that the principal
illf w"" ides eon suffer without involabig all the twit with it. w
elasl,.„ll'S air, the beet proof of the inefficacy of the measures
Foidiitile km, government on the 3rd ultimo la, that the
sms parte whkh brought the news of tt eh. having been
_semi le
on Beare of Commons has railed to Impart the slightest
..1.1-imil n tato Wainer of any kind. The tbetrt of Policy
111.17—s ee mein during, he fortnight Indeed, we believe, the
IL" Is, that in the way of law-making little remains
iilopelirrewee time ti come. No additions appear to be needed
!gperffirlaliatieentiv introduced and asses
on subjeeta or leg,d
;odd inalfrast But in SR c,:t.enslaiiprovince lake this there is
%irbricorillV Vorier,i'irot'ellhat rruLah...cr ilhe:-
-.A Oliva swing out fresh. To day a email addition haagni et
_yAgew perdition, by the arrival of the Arabian, 21 days from
poems, with 263 Africans—namely, 12345 women, 41
ratan adla There were .2 death. on the paa.age. An arrival
aiggibis pee from Madeira, with 14 Portugucee, ell grea. The
Megebr the last two or three dap, has been fine and clear ; but
promor part of Theig we have had deluges of rain.
SNIDAD. whole thoughts of the colonists
0 WOOStnlttd on the retrenchment of public expenditure.
INperf of Npain Gazette recommends that of all salaries
oweisg 3001. per annum only two-thirds shall be paid till
bat times return ; that even salaries under 3001. shall be
oved where diminution can be borne ; that the vacant
woe judgeship be left in abeyance during the same period;
isat the colonial magistrate, the assistant colonial secretary,
pi the first clerk of the treasury have their services din:
ed with tot nterim. A delicate hint is administered to
sri lianis tha his %glary will bear reduction as well as the
Wanes of minor dignitaries.
WINDWARD ISLANDS.—ST. LUCIA. The
hhopendene Preu remarks:
us our undoobtal opinion, then, that free-trade institutions and
oode liberty of comn.erce are the only remedies any way proper-
*see to Mow unparalleled and incredible grievances of which we
opt wig and spin complain, 101 we have tired the palled mother-
tience Of our
obese rulers. And well, indeed, may these be ca
eweins, becouar toil ore the one* be means of which we can
igg, gamin those bie,..maa of law,only truth, iind liberty, to which we
woo gag been, 'del suit continue to be, perfect strangers.

CHINA.
THE EASANTERND AUST gp IPELAGOA .

HONG-KONG.—The China Mail of the 27th of
Nara announces that Keying bad obtained leave of abmi,ce
• recount of his health. The Mail says :
Wm Minister Plenipotentiary for Foreign Affairs, has obtained
bigiorAnnee on the ground of bad beidth, and in the interim Sett,
Ulligennnt-Gosernor, will exercise the functions of his high
tea, Bach is the moot authentic account we can obtain at a
moor, which hoe bean the lament of many others not so well
The special purpose for which Keying was appointed
wei▪ kg ken acsompliaLed, it is understood ho has been very
Bras in his petitions to be relieved; and, knowing thia, we at
gss supposed his resignation had at length been accepted by
bast of Peking ; but from what we now learn it seems more pro e
-
lab be has obtained only a temporary leave of absence, solely on th
weal health. ilk constitution has been giving way under the
puma of his arduous and harassing duties, eo that those who nave
Salim of late have been struck with his altered appearance. Put
gars ie nothing to indicate a decay of his personal influence and an-
ode", which we are inclined to believe well be augmented by a visit
nide', and be fet by foreigners, whether Keying reeumes &reel
Islwourse with them or not. lie lam probably already taken his de-
ei lt is some days since V.P.C. cards front Mitt were Pent to
at the heads of departments, or for whom he has conalved

•
regal.
3'p Yail elto states that the magistrates I f Nan•hae had
long a proclamation regulating the excursions of foreigners
into the country, with a view to prevent fatal rencontres,
oni:az to that issued by the British consul at Keying's re-
quest, of which notification was received by last mail. The
Rail adds
We understand that the British Chamber of Commerce nt Canton
be,. geared resolutions entreating British subjects to plate nu re-
deem oil the ertangements come to by the authorities, but confine
liemetves as much as possible to the factorinv, and if they proceed up
*I rem, not to land on the banks or penetrate into the oountry bev
poi, "in the confident reliance that her Majesty's gores meat will
OWN. to them the full enjoyment of their prielleisa at no very dis-
tant period." These resolution:4 were adopted on the 19th inst., the
day after the following letter had been addressed to her Majestj'a
consul, whore reply i subjoined t
"Canton, Feb. 14, 1848.-To F. C. Macgregor, Esq.-ringSir,-Refer-
to the regulation. recently made public as to the manner in
which British subjects are directed to proceed when desirous to walk
into the country for exercise, we beg to inquire whether, in the event
of any due thinking the presence of the policemen would afford us no
protection, while it would certainly be s considerable annoyanee, and
prekrring therefore to take our chance as heretofore, we are to con-
sider sweeter@ prohibited from doing so; and whether, in the event
of our dispensing with each attendance and meeting with injury, we
should be deprived of our right to appeal to the British authorities
far retirees -We have, Sc., EDWARD Besmear, It. J. Ortares, R. R.

CAI., ULT."
" britiah Consulate, Canton, Feb. 21, 1118.—To Edward Boosted.
Esq., R. J. Gilman, Esq., mid It. R. Calvert, Esq.—Gentlemea,-1
hare to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the lath lout,
which only reached me on thitorday afternoon, and I have to slate in
reply to the seremi questions therein propomd, that as the regulations
to which you allude were framed for the protection of foreigners on
their excursion .% parties going into the surrounding country without
&tithing themselves of thi ni, must be considered && doing co at their '
own peril. —1 am, Mc., FILL.. C. M.1.0..1tE(101,"
VI e Alen read in the same journal :
We have heard thut:some days ago two American missionaries pro-
amded a little way beyond the ray, accompanied by the guides. They
met with some slight molestation, but no personal injury, oral accord-
ing to their own account the affair would scarcely be worth mention.
ing, hut for the exaggerations in which it is the practice to clothe ouch

0,0/TelICeS.
The following mem,rial from Kong• Kong to the Secretary
of Rear. for the Colonies, has been sent holm. by
this
for bee
To the Right Honourable the earl Grey, tecretary fte
Majesty's Colonies —The memorial of the Britt& and other inbabi-
tam (long-Kong and no ehoweth, that your memorialists
ace Reply interested in the welfare of this colony, either as owning
or rerung property in it. Your memorialists deem it unnecessary to
obtrude on your lordship a detailed statement of the unsatisfactory
pceition of the colony, the subject having been PO recently brought
to the notice of her Majesty's ministers in the report of the select
committee of the Home of Commons on British commercial relations
w,th thine, but your memorialists respectfully submit to your lord-
WO, that since the establishment of the settlement, the unusually
heave grouud-rent Ina been felt an a severe burden upon themselves
inte‘d .uallv, and a rerious drawback to the prosperity of the place.
was
Your lordship le no doubt *Aare that the high round-rent
chiefly accaractel by the unnatural competition consequent unit the
inadequate number of I is of lad offered for tale in the first instance;
and your memorialists would now direct the attention of your lord-
ship to the absence of any active local trade capable of supporting
such a burden. Your memorialist, desire not to be understood as
claiming Psi 'option from reasonable taxation, but would urge on the
consideration of her Majesty's government the necessity of an early
and important reduction of the ground-rents levied in llong-Kong, an
well as a revision of the terms of the present learn as the only effec-
tual means of enabling your memorialists to support their poeition as
British colonists. Your memorialists annex a return showing the
ground-mat paid for each lot, its area, and the annual rental or esti-
mated rental of the buildings erected on it, by which it would appear
that the groenthrents received by goeernment in llong-Kong equal
or exceed the house-rents paid in many of the cities and WITT. of
Great Britain. In conclusion, your memonalists beg the attention of
your lordship to the questionable policy of entailing upon the few who
make llong-liong their residence, the burden of maintaining a gov, en-
tarot whose chid duty is the protection and control of tho traffic of the
people of two great empires, a traffic by which the rev. noes of Great
Britain and her Indian posse-sions are mitten dly augmented. Feel-
ing a strong eonv.etion of the justice of their noose, your memorialists
entrust it with confidence to the hands of your lordship, and, relying
on its favourable coatideration by her Majesty's government, your
ss in duty bound, will ever play.—llong-Song. Feb.
to, IA4I.
SINGAPORE, MARCH 7, 1848. The Overland
Mail of Dee. 24 arrived at Singapore Feb. 7, per Penin.
Pala and Oriental steamer Lady Mary Wood; happily
woo of the failure; in Europe have yet &Mated any of the
emaratrei firms here. On Feb. h, 9, 10, and 11, it blew
almost a hurricane from the north-east, accompanied by a
Many sea; the whole of the Singapore beach was encroached
opts; the murk& trees planted along the road-side on the
Uplanade were washed away ; the snipping happily sus-
tamed no damage. The steamer Lady Mary Wood, which
left this on the Bth ult. for China, put back on the 10th,
laving proceeded as far as Pedro Branca, where, the wind
and sea being very high, the vessel at full power could not
make one mile an hour. As the coals were Expending to no
pupae, Captain Evans resolved to return to Singapore
and again started for Hong Kong on the 11th. So high
a sea has not been before witnessed at Sin-
More. Several plantations sustained damage, es-
pithily the nutmeg trees. Alter the 12th, the
'saber became calm and sultry. The nz m
influeamade its
appearance, and still rages, few escaping its attacks—some
fatal cases have occurred amongst the juvenile clam. We
look for the appearance of rain to remove the epidemic. The
all-engrossing topic here has been the sad tragedy committed
by convicts on board the ship General Wood, wlrm the cap-
tain, offlore, and above 75 persons perished by butchery and
shipwreck. 1 have drawn op a separate narrative of the
mCancholy affair, as the subject demanded remarks in detail.
Cass of piney are almost of daily occurrence within the
vicinity of the harbour, and yet the government cannot be
ioducth to orgatise a harbour police. Oa Feb. 1G a boat,
containing four Chinese, who were proceeding to Tanjong to
cut timber, was attacked by two Malay prahus, armed with
heist, spears, ; two of the Chinese were killed, one
jumped overboard, and has not since been beard of, and
the forth was left dangerously wounded ; the boat
wan plundered of its contents, consisting of two incubi
of Mee and a basket of fish, the whole worth
ix doilan. The Malays have escaped. Two other cases of
Limy and loss of life have occurred during the month of
r °Run'. In ell three instances the outrages were perpe-
tiled in the light of day and within sight of the harbour
and town of Singapore. The H. C:steam frigate Auckland,
which in January last proceeded to China with 35 artillery.
men from the Straits, for service at Canton, returned to
Singapore Feb". 24. Sir John Davis having patched up the
affair in Chins, was as anxious to send the troops away as he
wan before urgent for their being sent on. The Auckland
took the artillery on to Penang, and returned here on
Hatch 4th. H. M. S. Medalui, from Hong• Kong, arrived '
at Singapore Feb. 25, and will await here until after
the departure of the mail, when she will proceed to
Pinang, remain there until relieved by the Mmander, Capt.
Efppel, when the Diedabis will return to Singapore for
Bares, and sail for England. During the past ten or fifteen
days the town has been set in commotion in consequence of
'Mend krge placards, in the Chinese language, rated at
the corners id the leading thoroughfares. These placards
were of an infftromatory nature, deriouncive of the conduct
of the government rind the police generally, and of the ofli-
'Wing deputy of police in particular—the latter having be-
come obnneuran and u
io t...tosce.s
Chinese,thees .in consequence of his
o oon.-
e inthea
on m
Mohler., miners, and other bad
p r e
characters. en"
The appear
ince of these placards is a bad sign ; it is following up the
Perniciousoracti:e so common and fraught with no much
"at Canton. The editor of the Straits 7 imes has
brought to the notice of the authorities the existence of six
or sewn Chinese printing establishments where intlamma-
torr placards..h.ll ha n s, &c., are printed by blocks. Iland-
, bill.. cilia
• on the Chinese to quit the country or aoaociate
puttingFc
m
°f the
down (by violence) tho alleged harlinese
police are circulated among tho hueye, or
keret
societies. The Straits Times has very properly •• retoin-
alluded th
b 7 7 •these Chinese printing establishments should
ems.,at
cred as vquired of " all proms," by Act XI. of

1835, for if beyond reach of the authorities in coat of vio-
lating the law, the most dangerous consequences may ensue,
and the unruly Celestial mob at Singapore become as in-
fluential as the Canton agitators. Speaking of the Hueys, I
may mention that about • fortnight since a regular pitched
battle took place at Built Teinah, seven miles from the town
of Singapore, between the partisans of rival Ilueys, each
party endeavouring to overcome and carry off the other, and
to put them to torture and death at leisure ! No lives were
lost on either side, and finding each party • match for the
other a truce wan agreed to, although nut until atter many
wounds were inflicted. The quietly disposed Chinese
planters were compelled to abandon their work; many of
them proceeded to town for the protection of the police,
there being no rural constabulary force. These Huey feuds
form • great drawback to Chinese emigrants unless there
exists a vigilaut police possessing sufficient numerical strength
to keep them in awe. On the 28th February, the B.C. ,
steamer Tenasserim arrived at Singapore from Afartras, hay- •
ing on board 265 rank and tile of her Majesty's 25th Regi-
ment, under the command of Major O'Connor. 'the other
portion of the left wing are to come on in the Hon. Company',
steamer Enterprise, and it is stated that her Majesty's 18th
Royal Irish will probably be brought to Singapore per Ben-
bock steamer. All this activity among the troops has arisen
out of the unstable policy of Sir John Davis, who wrote
down here for several regiments for service in China. The
Vulture steam-frigate was despatched from Hung-Kong
with a countermand for all troops; had the Vulture pro-
ceeded at once to Madras, lashed of remaining at anchor
here several days, the expense of trap-porting the troops
might have been spared. The Vulture would have arrived
at Madras on the 13th or 14th Feb. The portion of her
Majesty's 25th, which came in the Tenesserim, did not em-
bark till the 18th, and left on the following morn-
ing. The countermand which was sent, rid Galle,
would not reach Medias before February 20th.
It is probable the departure of other troops
will be stopped. The Hon. Col. Butterwortb,C. 8., Governor 1
of the Straits, returned to Singapore with his amiable mid
accomplished lady on March 4, after an absence of six weeks,
, during which time the governmental duties were performed
by the resident councilor, liou. Mr. Church. Her Majesty's
sloop Ringdove, Capt. E. A. Ingletield, returned to this port
ea the 6th inst., having been to Penang to make a demote-
stretion, with the view or awing the King of Quedah into a
compliance with the dictates of the Beogal government. On
the same day, the Peninsular and Oriental Corny any's
steamer Lad> Mary Wood, arrived from Hongkong, having I
on board General d'Aguilar. The general lauded at noon
under • salute from the battery, and became the guest of
his honour the governor. In the evening an entertainment
was given at Government House, at which the general was
present, and expressed himself extremely satisfied at the
attentions he received during a short stay at Singapore.
P.S.—Mauen 7, NOON. —The Honourable Company's
steamer liuoghly proceeded this morning to the North
Natunas, in search after the Chinese convicts that escaped in
the boats of the " General Wood." lier Majesty's sloop
Kin dove leaves to-day for theAnambas, on the some searcn
las the liooghly. The Honourable Company's steamer
Tonasserim, with part of the let: wing of her Majesty's 25th
Borderers kit Singapore this morning to return to Madras.,
General d'Aguilar having advised that step in consequence
of Sir John Davis having writteeolticialiy to the gevernineut
of India to countermand the despatch of troops to Chins.
The Honourable Company's steamer Auckland is now here ;
Alter some repairs are done to her enaii.es she will, I believe,
proceed to Cochin China, to endeavour to release Mr. Victor
Humes, supposed to be still in confinement in that country.
The following important intelligence from the Saylor:. Archi-
pelago h.a been received by the editor of the Strai,s Times
this morning. Theearly departure of the steamer to Gene
has prevented its publication, but 1 send you a galley proof
of toe news. Having just seen the ofliciel desoitchea 1 can
vouch for its correctnees:
tiravisii Exrcon tor anamsr out ri.Tv,.—Tines office, March
17, II A r.—ray the arrival here last night of the Spanish war-
steamer, }Minim :Is Castilla, wheal:as have Mtn remised at a most
gallant attack on the lkilanguem pirates. On one or two oceasionathe
governor. general at Manilla had written to the sultan of ao.aoo to ex-
terminate the pirate. at halentignt, but the sultan having neglected
to do so, the Spanish government very prowl); waterbeds the kok,
and tolls ably performed it. The blanilla authorita s resolved to punish
the pirates who for years have made descents on the coasts of Lumina,
and carried away into captivity Spanish subjects. The cats din. left
Manilla Feb 5, and comprised 3 war-seta., 2 war.sehounem, 6 nue-boats,
8 small do., 601.11 u e, fantry, 50 artillery, with 2 tit Id pieces. Os the arrival
at the chief haunt of the 'antes, the island lialangigiii, the place was
testes by assault, alter a wog obotivate and donut resistance, the
work of extermination continuing from Feb. 15 to 25. Two fortresses,
ably defended, were assaulted and taken. The attacking force lost
on< intantry captain, and 20 privates slain; also lo otheers and 156
men were wounded. Of the pirates MAT then 430 men were killed ;
their redetance wws most determined; In vain were they oriel ed
quarter—they resolved to perish. At one of the form assaulted, called
sippett, the gamma, finding no chance of eimape, commenced slaying
their wives and children, lest they should tall into the bands of
their attache; on this, the general commanding interposed,
and humanely saved three hundred women and children, who
were a.out being put to death by the Ktis. About two
hundred slaves were liberated, some of whom were taken
from the Philippines about two years preciously, others wet e Dutch
subn eta: the general commanding offered to convey the latter to Jars.
'the spanish took 124 guns, chiefly brass; also tired oral destrojed
about 156 piratic,' prows—called pantos and vintas— rased seven vtl-
loges and tour (inlet Pam, called lialanlrliMi, Singap, oippac, and Liu-
contingal. About 7,660 or s,oooc:wog-nut trees were also dotniyed,
and all possible mean' employed to render the island unfit fur habita-
tion. NOVIe of the pirates managed to escape, favoured by the occur-
rence of a Revere storm of wind; but we have reason to believe that
the pirates of the Island of lialangigni hare been annihilated. Great
praise is due to the Spanish for the manner in which the cspeditam
was mined out. The above, winch is auttieutic, is all that we have
received on the subject.
BORNEO PROPEIL—SooLoo ARCHIPELAGO.—
The Amelia, a trading vessel, arrived at Singapore, Feb. 24,
with dates from Brunk to the 13th of the emus month. Mr.
' Burns, who proceeded to 'hued to enter into engagements
for working the antimony mines at Binteeloo and Tenpin,
had OA audience of the sultan and was manning under the
protection of his highness. Some progress had been made in
the antimony negotiation, which, when completed, will de.
stroy the Sarawaic monopoly and reduce the price of the ore
which by the Sarawak monopoly was raised from Ti. per ton
to 301. As hinted in my communications of July and August
last, the Sooloos have resolved to punish the bad faith of the
sultan in slaughtering the pirates that escaped from the H.C.
steamer Berate in May last year. From the best source at
Bruni I learn that active preparations are being made to re-
pel an attack from the Sieolooe. My informant ob-
serves: All the prahus that have arrived lately front
Maluda have breught intelligence that the Sultan
of Boole.) is making extensive preparations for
an expedition to Borneo Proper, in order to chastise Bruni
for taking part with the Engtish ; and the Sooloos expree a
determination to retake ?delude and other districts as far as
}Liman's. These reports at first were not much heeded, but
on February 5, Sheriff Holman (son-inlaw of Sheriff
Houseman, who was killed at ?Saluda by Admiral Coch-
rane), arrived at Bruni, confirming the intelligence con-
veyed by liie precursors, and stating further that the Soelooe
have refused to trade, or to hold any friendly communica-
tion with him or his people, unless they renounced their
allegiance to the Sultan of Bruni, and gave up all inter-
course with the Eng:ish. Sheriff Beeman also states that,
prior tibia departure, three Datoos, named Hassim, Maluk,
and Hamat, arrived from Sooloo as deputies, selected by the
Sooloo sultan, to demand of the people of Metleula an answer
whether they would take part with Sooloo, or adhere to the
' court at Bruni and the English. By way of intimi-
dation, these Datoos said, that at Sooloo the
sultan had just completed a strong fort, the construction of
which was superintended by • white man, named Guillions
(Williams?), and if the Sooloos wished it, they could do now
with Labuan as they did years ago with Balambangau. On
the return of these Datoos to Soo 00, they plundered a prahu
on its way to Bruni, and carried away with them four of the
crew. The Sultan of Brnni is making preparations for de-
fence, end has sent word to Ltebman. The sultan expected
the next news would be—the poor wretches rending along
the coast flying for succour to the capital from the invading
foe. The Hon. Company's steamer Phlegethon was still act-
ing as guard-ship at Labuas, so that no fear or cd be enter-
tained for the lives of the subjects of his dinginess of Borneo
in that neighbourhood. It is to be hoped that the Sooloos
will carry out their intention, especially as the Spanish ex-
pedition, noticed above by our Singapore correspondent,
would co-operate.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA. SWAN itivEa.--
AdtiCel and journals from Western Australia have been re-
ceived at Singapore to Jan. 15. Whilst parties were quitting
the place for Adelaide, Port Phillip, and elsewhere, the colo-
nists were loud in their complaints of the paucity of labourers,
especially shepherds; of the latter class, Capt. Scott, of the
AI trope, had assured the colonists, that he would bring out
200 Scotch shepherds, provided the local government would
pay half the passage•money. German imtnigration was
chiefly looked to for succour ; a subscription paper was cir-
culating in the York district, having! for its object the en•
gagement of 200 emigrants, with their fatuities, at the rate
of 181. per annum and the common rations, as shephVon
erds
and labourers. The elan is warmly supporteei by Dr.
Summer, and rendered more hopeful from the fact of up-
wards of 5,000 German immigrants having settled at the
omf i
Western
i i n g ili-tz i
Aut ofsuht r
,South iA. :at . t reaut
ii a. .F . Tch.ci(tawct.ieg,)..gtionvueesrnotor
he highly unpopular ; his measures are nauseous to the co-
lonists—in fact, Col. Irwin is in a fix with his (unofficial)
council. On the death of Mr. W. B. Andreve, the vacant
neat in council wasoffered to Mr. J. Busse! ; that gentleman
declined. The
thetan the list, Mr. S. Moore, accepted it ;
but on Oct. 7, edy fixed' for meeting of council, Mr.
sent in his resignation, Mr. F. Slade, the next in rota-
Yuleo.ffreret
hdto °My
cri...5..,5,
sent • verbal message stating that his presence in council
fluostetdert‘d'eaccltinedth,easi"htis ass
Lion,
tnihree
wit, required. The vacant seat in the council has gone a
re sr:lni

begging. •
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.— ADELAIDE. —By the
arrival of the Bremen ship Herr Von B: clerra'h at Batavia,
journals have been received from Adeaide to Jan. 10. The
prospects of the colony continued to brighten. The culture
of the native silkworm is progressing, und promises to be
very successful. The ship Derwent, from London, having
on board the first protestant Bishop of South and Western
Australia arrived at Adelaide Dec. 27, after a passage of
116 days from Portsmouth. The bishop received a most
hearty reception. On Dec. 30 his lordshipss installed at
Trinity Church with due ceremony. • house of Mr.
Roberts, at Kensington, was taken as a temporary residence
for the bishop ; it is understood that a substsutial episcopal
palace will be forthwith built for which his lordship is
provided with ample funds. 'On Gth January a govern-
ment sale of mineral lands took place, when 1,024 acres
realised 6,8001., being an average of 41. 3s. Oil. per acre. The
sections were chiefly In the neighbourhood of the Kapunda
copper mines. The Para company were the principal pur-
chasers.
NEW ZEALAND.—From Wellington intelligence
has been received to N.JT. 24. New Zealand affairs do rot
appear bright. Governor Grey was not only en very ques-
tionable terms with the Legislative Council and the public,
but had fallen out with the ecclesiastics by an attempt to in-
vade the church territories. The claims urged by members
of the Church Missionary Society are, in many eases, ridi-
culous and unjust.

The Britannia
,(Inptain Stone, wiled from Liver-
iool on Saturday, for Halifax and Boston.

ne Court.
The Duchess of Kent arrived at Osborne on Satur-
day afternoon on a Till% to the Queen.
The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay arrived at
Osborne on Saturday afternoon from town en a visit to her
Majesty.
Yesterday morning her Majesty and Prince Albert,
the Duchess of Kent, and the ladies and gentlemen in wait-
ing, attended divine service in Osborne. The lion. and
Rev. C. Leslie Coortenay officiated.

Lord Arundel had an interview with Sir George
Orel on Saturday at the Home-office.
the Earl and Countess Grey left town on Thurs-
day for Datcbet. Vizcount Morpeth has left town for Tren-
tham-hall, Staffordshire. Viscount Palmerston left town on
Saturday for his seat, Broadands, Hants.
Despaches were received on Saturday at the Colo-
nial-othce from the governors of New South Wales and
South Australia.
Despatches were sent off on Saturday evening from
the Colonial-office for the Governor of the Cape of Good
Hops.

THE VICE-PRESIDENCY OF THE BOARD OF TRADE.
—Mr. James Wilson, M.P. for Westbury, has been men-
tioned as the probable successor of the Right lion. Milner
Gibson, u Vice-President of the Board of Trade. What-
ever arrangement& may be contemplated, it is quite certain
that no step has yet been taken in the matter.—Observer.
DR. MARTIN has been appointed stipendiary ma-
gistrate in the colony of British Guiana.
PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY. The
Atheneum says : " We believe we can say with some confi-
dence that the new president will be the Earl of Rouse—a
choke which will combine the aristocratic element seemingly
so dear to the members of the 11.,,yal Society, with the ac-
knowledgment of a claim for service done to science, which
is more befitting the theory of their character."

CALLS TO THE BAR.—MIDDLE TEMPLE, APRIL
22.—The undermentioned gentlemen, until to the degree
of the Utter Bar on Thursday last, were published in the
Middle Temple Hall on Saturday: B. F. Moose, Esq., and
C. H. Cook, Esq.
'TILE MARYLERONE VESTRY, on Saturday, agreed
after some discussion to an address to her Majesty, assuring
her of the loyal attachment of that body, and their readiness
to assist the authorities in the preservation of the peace.
UNION OE THE MIDDLE. AND WORKING CLASSES.
—On Saturday a meeting of the inhabitants of St. Martin-
' ins-the-Fields was held in the parish vestry, to adopt a con-
gratulatory address to her Majesty upon the happy termina-
tion of the late abortive attempts to create riot and revolution
in the metropolis. The Rev. Sir H. R Dukintield, Bart, ,
was called to the chair.—The Hon. Mr. Gladstone, /4.P.,
rose to move the adoption of the address, which he had him-
self prepared. He said that in this tree country every man
had the liberty of following his own judgment as to the
course he pursued, and therefore there was manifested here
a greater diversity of opinion than could be found under a
despotic monarchy or a republic, fur both were found equally
hostile to the free expression of opinion ; and hence there
were found a concurrence of feeling and a conviction in this
country, more profound, more powerful, and more sig-
nally united, than in any other country in the world. The
bun. gentleman then read and moved the adoption of a very
eloquent and loyal address, which concluded thus ; " And
we pray your Majesty's happy reign may be remembered
to the latest posterity, as for other distinctions, so especially
for tee ireful, impartial, and frugal expenditure of the
public resources, and the further progressive improvement
of the condition of the people."—Mr. Churchwarden Palmer
seconded the motion.—Mr. Henry Pouncey was most desi-
rous that a uniformity of opinion and sentiment should exist
amongst them, and distinguish that address, which could
not occur unless it embraced every subject that should, at
that crisis, be brought under her Majesty's notice. While
they congratulated her Majesty upon the late events they
should also draw her attention to the neceasity of adopting
such measures as were calculated to remove the causes that
lately jeopardised the public peace. It was utterly impos-
sible to secure the peace of the country without a reform
being made in the present mode of taxation, expenditure,
and representation. He therefore moved that the following
paragraph be added to the address :
to
While the meeting, dutifully and moat respectfully exproming
your Majesty the strong attachment to your Majcaty's throne and
person, end their determination to uphold and support them, would
be guilty of a fatal omission if they did nut at the same time express
their conviction that the delusions which artful men have employ cal in
thetrentleavuurs to raise an armed opposition to them have been
fearfully aided by a feeling that the par pc
of the upon.
try has hen pro use, and the taxation and representation unequal.
And your Majesty's faithful subjects in ley al &Ina ray would implore
your Majesty to direct a severe investdtatioa into the expenditure
and taxation; so that whatever defecai cabling therein being re.
moved, there shall remain to no class of your Ma sty's subjects any
just ground of complaint, and your Majesty'a throne may be more
firmly established in the a fftetions of your Majesty's subjects.
Mr. Abbott seconded the amendmenti—Mr. Lebran sup-
ported the amendment. He placed little faith in petitions,
and, therefore, was of opit ton that their only. hope ot re-
ds, as was tom' addressing the throne at mace, and directly.
—Mr. Gilbert Pouncey thought that it 'Would be more loyal
and dutiful for them to forewarn andeforeann the Queen
against the future, than to conceal nom her Majesty the real
condition and feeling of the country. Thealfore, the address
would he a " delusion, a mockery, and a 'snare," unless ac-
companied by the amendment.—Mr. Lancaster similarly ex-
pressed himself.—Mr. Wilson assured the meeting that al-
though the middle classes went out armed to resist any at.
tempt that might have been made last Monday week to in-
jure property or person, the middle classes 'empathised with
the chin tints, and were willing to juin them in their struggle
for the objects they sought. (Cries of "yes, yes"—" no, no.")
Yes ; the middle classes were for household euff,agc and
triennial parliaments. (Hear.) In his iipinion the chartists
were fools to aid the middle classes to get rid of the income
tax. They should have left them to fight their own battle.
(Hear.) After a very warm and prolonged discussion that
part of Mr. Pouncey's amendment calling upon her Mak sty
to order an investigation into the taxation and expenditure '
of the country was adopted; and with that addendum the
address was agreed to, and ordered to be presented to the
Queen by the rev. chairman, to whom the thanks of the
meeting were given.
SIIAKSPEAItet HOCSE.—The dinner at Stratford-
upon-Avon, in commemoration of the birth of Sbakspeare,
takes place to-day (Monday). Lord Brooke is to preside,
and he is to be supported by Lord Morpeth, the chairman of
the London committee, and about a dozen other members of
that body. The entertainment is under the especial ma-
nagement of the Shakspt are Club of Stratford, consisting of
most of the persons of rank, wealth, and distinction in the
county of Warwick. The whole body will take a sew of
the newly-acquired property, now become national, and
will make such temporary arrang, meats as are necessary for
its custody and preservation. 'elle character ball (to which,
however, a particular costume is not necessary) will
be held en the 22nd of May. The list of pa.
tronesses is daily increasing. The nights fixed upon for
the London performances of the amateur. are the
15th and the 17th 'May. The tickeu will admit to both, but
will be transferable. On the lOth of May will be given
" The Merry Wives of Windsor," followed by " Animal '
Magnetism." The cast of the principal characters in the I
comedy is, we understand, the following; Falstaff, Mr.'
Mark Lemon ; Shallow, Mr. Charles Dickens; Slender, Mr.
Leech ; Ford, Mr. Forster; Page, Mr. F. Dickens; Host of
the Garter, Mr. F. Stone ; Sir Hugh Evans, Mr. Lewis ;
Dr. Calm, Mr. Costello; Pistol, Mr. G. Cruikshank ; '
Fenton, Mr. A. Dickens ; Mrs. Ford, Miss Fortescue ; and
Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. Cowden Clarke. We have not yet heard
how some of the other parts are to be filled, but Mrs. Cow-
lden Clarke, the authoress of the " Concordance to
Shakspeare," is a great acquisition to the strength of the
I company. Is the farce of " Animal Magnetism" the two
principal characters will be filled by Mr. C. Dickens and
Mr. Mark Lemon. The performance on the 17th of May
will be a repetition of "Every Man in his Humour," so
capitally represented a year or two ago, and with the same
actors in ail the leading parts. The alterpiece will be
Kenney's most humorous farce of " Love, Law, and
Physic." Flexible, Mr. C. Dickens; Lubin Log, Mr. Mark
Lemon ; and .bulreto, Mr. Lewis. The attraction will be
unequalled.—obserrer.
FIRE AT LIMEHOUSE.—By the official report we
learn that the tire which broke out in Church-row, Lime- I
house, on Friday night, wan attended with a far greater de- I
struction of property than was at first expected. A great
numbe of persons who resid in the hou on the opposite
side ofr the thoroughfare haveed lost the whole of their terni-
ture, wearing apparel, and other effects. It has been as-
certained that no persons were buried in the ruins, but a
child living in one of the opposite houses was severely burnt.
Tt.e fallowing is the official statement of the damage
done:—No. 18, Church-row, Mr. Horne, sail-maker:
premises burned down; insured in the Phoenix
Fire off ce.—
Mr. Taylor, boat-builder; workshops burned down.—Mr.
Chalter, patent felt manufacturer, burnt down; uninsured. I
—No. 6. Mr. George Davis, front door and windows burned
out, and considerable damage to furniture by fire.—No. 7.
Joseph Deeley, house partially destroyed, and furniture con-
siderably damaged by tire ; insured in the Sun No. 8.
William Sayers, front doors and windows destroyed, third
floor nearly burned out, and rest of house seriously damaged
insured in the Globe.—No. 9. T. Spence, house-front burned
out, and furniture considerably damaged by tire, &c. ; in-
sured in the Globe.—No. 20. .1. Inglis, front of premises da-
maged by fire; insured in the Phenix —No. 4. E. Chat-
field', similar damage to stock aid building.—No. 5. F.
Aycrst, premises damaged by tire, and furniture by removal ;
uninsured.—No. 10. W. Field wick, front scorched ; unin-

THE REFORM MOVEMENT.
On Friday night a public meeting was held in the
Waterloo Rooms, Silinburgh, in favour of the enfranchise-
ment of the working classes, the reduction of the national
expenditure, and the equalisation of taxation ; and in sup-
port of the movement lately set in operation by Altura.
Fiume, Cobden, and other liberal membins of parliament.
Professor DICK WOO called to the chair, and after alluding
to the fact that the Lord Provost bad declined to call the
meeting, said he was convinced, although this country had
many valuable institutions, that there was yet room for ex-
terunve improvement in them. lie did not coinci•le in
opinion with that body who were known as chartists, and he
was opposed to all violent measures to obtain reform. Re
held that, with patience and perseverance, they would ac-
complish all that they desired. " Rome was not built in a
day ; ' and it was vain to expect that they would obtain a
redress of their grievances without both time and exertion.

(Hear.) He advised them, therefore, to go on with a quiet
but determined agitation, in seeking the reduction and the
equalisation of taxation. (Applause.) He contended that
from the facilities afforded by railway communisation, we
might reduce our army one-half; and, from the superiority
of one steam marine, he maintained that there was no neces-
sity for having such a large and fully equipped navy as we
now had. (Applause.) Alluding to the church establit.
enent, he said it was unjust end tyrannical to make the
minority of the people pay for the support of a religious
communion in which they did not believe. This was espe
cially the ease as regarded Ireland, where the Episcopal
Church was a disgrace and an intolerable grievance to the
country. (Applause.) He might advert to other matters,
but these were sufficient to show the need of some reform in
our electoral system. While he did not believe that the
working classes were asking a very unreasonable thing after
all, he considered that if they would go more systematic illy
to work, more coolly and quietly, they might ultimately
succeed in obtaining an extension of the franchise.
The Rev. Mr. Boeznirson (Independent) moved the first
resolution, which was to the effect that the people of this
country were a politically proscribed and an unjustly de-
graded class, and that the time had now come when partial
representation and elassizinsiation must cease, and that the
representation of the people of this nation must be full, fair,
and free. In those days of gagging bills, intended to pre-
vent or punish certain kinds of "open and advised speak-
ing," Mr. Robertson said he had thought it proper that
what he was going to say should be thoroughly " advised."
lie had, therefore, committed his thoughts to paper,
and nothing but an irresistible impulse would draw
him from his manuscript. (" Hear," and a laugh.)
The impression now seemed to be almost universal that. their
country was far from being in a safe condition. What
meant these gigging bills—these warlike demonstrations on
the part of the constituted authorities—these organising;
and mighty aesemblings of special constables—(a laugh)—
those shrinkings from the discussion of political questions ;
did not these things indicate fear ? Did they not lay, in
language which could not be mistaken, that the conditim
of the country was far from being safe When such danger
existed, there could not be peace. The only way, there-
fore, to restore quiet and confidence to the country, was to
enfranchise the working classes. The middle classes, and
the friends of peace and order of every class, must come to
the rescue. The country demanded that they should speak
out. The majority of the House of Commons were asleep,
and they must be roused. He approved of the principles of
the charter, because they were consistent with justice and ,
equity ; but he was the determined and unflinching opponent
of physical force. Those who spoke with such empty bravado
and cowardly bluster he would not trust. They would de-
sert the people its the first hour of danger. Much, however,
a, he was opposed to then who advocated a resort to physical
force, he still more strongly reprehended the conduct of
those who were for using force to oppose the working classes. I,
There was the excuse for the latter that they were goaded
and exasperated by a keen sense of oppression; but the
former were conscious of plundering led degrading their
fellow-men, and rather than give up their plunder, I
they were resolved to imbue their hands in their brothers'
Hood. Out on all such cold-bloo led villainy. (Cheers.)
Mr. Robertson then remarked that the day had gone by
when the soldiers of any country would tire on their friends,
their brethren, and their fellow-countrymen, at the beck or
call of any government. He rejoiced in this, because he saw
in it a reason to hope that the period was at hand when na.
tions would no longer lift up the sword against nation,. He
took leave of physical force by sating that the government
had no more right to shoot the pepple than the people had to
shoot the government.
Mr. LI:UNSAY seconded the resolution, which was carried
amidst acclamation, as were all the others subsequently pro-

posed.
Mr. luxes proposi d the second resolution. which referred
to the hoplessnere of getting a complete and fair representa-
tion of the people by an act of the present House of Com-
mons, under the direction anal control of the existing mini-
stry ; and, therefore, that a memorial be presented to her
Majesty to dismiss her present ministers, and to call to her
councils such men as have acquired the confidence of the
nation. (Cheers.) Like Mr. Robertson, Mr. lanes read his
speech. He commenced by saying that a set of aristocratic
idlers had too long usurped the legislature of the country ;
and that it was now high time that men acquainted with
the interests of trade—men who sympathised with the
wants and wishes of the people—should be placed at the
helm of affairs. The petitions of the people had too
often and long been listened to with inattention,
or laughed at with contempt. Too long had gr ie st.
acme pressing severely on tho people been allowed.
to remain, and the remedies which they pmposed rs-
fused. (Cheers.) There must be a change in the
representation ; the people must be enfranchised ; for was
it not reasonable that those who had the labour of making
the money, should know best how to lay it out ? Alluding
to the increase in the army and navy, he asked if they were
to allow all that they had gained in corn to be thrown away
in powder ? Was it just to tax an over-oppresred people to
keep up a large standing army, which cost tea millions more
than it did at the period of the unreformed parliament? In
ender to accomplish this, and to secure a reform of the estrls
under which they laboured, parliament must no longer be
elected by corrupt freemen or aristocratic serfs, but by the
people themselves. (Applause.) Mr. lanes concluded by
an allusion to the statement of Lord Palmerson, that " the
blood of Douglas would protect itself." The introduction
of a gagging bill, and the alarming anxiety demonstrated by
the government and the legislature did not in his opinion
afford any very decisive proof of " the noble blood of Douglas
being able to protect itself." (Cheers.)
Mr. FINLATSON seconded the resolution • and, in the
course of a somewhat lengthy speech, referred to the enor-
mous expense of our Laval and military establishments.
Mr. JOHN STEWART proposed the third resolution,which
regarded with feelings of hope the great movement now
organising under the leadership of Joseph Hume, Richard
Cobden, John Bright, and the other reformers of the House
of Commons, for the enfranchisement of the people and the
reduction of the national expenditure; and pledged the
meeting to strengthen their hands by every constitutional
means which could be made available to that great end.
(Cheers.)
Mr. MENZIES moved the fourth resolution, approving of
the proposal for forming a people's league, to effect a union
of the working and middle classes, and to combine all true
reformers in one united and peaceful movement.—Mr.
tiltlNrosil seconded the motion.—Mr. CCHNINOHAM moved
he adoption of petitions to both houses of parliament,
founded on the resolutions.—Me. MESHET seconded the
reso'ution.
The CHAIRMAN said, so the businem of the meeting woo
now concluded, he begged again to impress upon them that
a peaceful agitation would do more to secure the redress of '
their grievances, than all those demonstrations which had
induced the authorities to call out the special constables.
II" had himself acted as a special constable in the late dis-
turbances in this city; and he believed that the authorities
exercised a wise discretion in calling them out.
A vote of thanks having been given to Professor Dick for
his conduct in the chair, the meeting quietly separated at 11
o'clock.
• • • ••

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, APRIL 22.
Instead of Mr. Mitchell following the example of
his fellow-traversers, and " putting himself on the
country," he pleaded in abatement of the information
that one of the grand jury, who found the bills, was
a member of the town council, and as such ineligible
to the office of grand juror, by a provision in the
Irish Municipal Act which disqualifies the members
of the town council from serving on any jury, except
for a commission of assize or general gaol delivery.
What course the crown will pursue has not yet trans-
pired. The plea, be it good or bad, being on the re-
cord, and resuming a conviction to be had, Mr. Mit-
chell would be enabled, under Lord Campbell's Act,
to stand out on his recognisances until the final deci-
sion of the House of Lords. The course of the Attor-
ney-General will probably be this : to abandon the
present informations, and proceed against Mr. Mit-
chell under the last act, if he should afford the oppor-
tunity, which he declares himself he will not fail to
do on every recurring Saturday. Under the Crown
and Government Security Bill the process is simple.
The offender may be held to bail at once for the
felony, and tried by general or special commission.
The other traversers having pleaded not guilty, will
be tried in the usual course.
The meeting of the clubs on Thursday night put
the government on the alert, and steps were taken to
insure public order should its violation be attempted.
The marines of the Dragon and Amphion were
brought up from Kingstown by rail, and stationed
in the customhouse, and the various other detached
points throughout the city were strengthened by addi-
tional companies of infantry from the several barracks.
In consequence of some information received by the
authorities, it was deemed necessary to increase the
military force at Drogheda, and two companies of the
31st were despatched on Thursday evening by the
railway.
The country is deluged with declarations and ad-
dresses. Another is to be added to the number, en-
titled, " National declaration in favour of Repeal."
An address to the Lord-Lieutenant has been for-
warded from Armagh, signed by the Protestant and
Roman catholic primates, and by a vast number of the
inhabitants of the different religious denominations.
The trades of Cork have determined for this year to
abandon their usual procession on Easter Monday—a
prudent determination.
Three additional workhouses are to be forthwith
constructed in Ireland ; one at Berehaven, Cork ;
another at Dingle, Kerry ; and a third at Bangor, in
Erris, Mayo.
The Limerick paper notices the circumstance that
the military, in marching into or through Limerick,
are not as usual billeted on the houses of entertain-
ment, but are la
gents that it is in
There was a ri
clubs on Thursdai
themselves as -
admit that an>
occasion, but in
probab:lity of t
IHE PLurue

arms, is becoming organised throughout all Europe. It re•
sues its natural place as an element of the state. A national
guard, to protect the rights. interests, and honour of the
nation, was the earliest demand of every people who have won
their freedom in our day. National honour is no longer in
the ceeping of kings and ministers-it is guarded by the
strong hands of the people. And wisely and jealously
they have guarded it, till tyranny or anarchy alike threaten
it in vain.
Ireland, too, demands this guarantee for liberty and
order. To secure it we must make certain that there are.
men ready and competent for so serious a duty. And this
trial has begun. The lollowing declaration is in course of
signature. The first name to it is that of William Smith
O'Brien :
'P Resolved,-That, inasmuch as the circumstances of the
present time require that every win should hold himself in
readiness to take up arms in defence of his country, sod
that the names of those who are willing to perform this
duty should he known to the British government and to
their fellow-countrymen, it is recommended that the fol-
lowing declaration be signed by all Irishmen between the
ages of 18 and 60, who are willing to serve as members of
a national guard :
We,the undersigned, hereby declare that we are willing '
to enrol ourselves u members of a national guard, for the
purpose of preserving social order and protecting this
island against all foes, domestic and foreign ; that we arc
prepared to furnish ourselves with suitable weapons and •
accoutrements, and are resolved to hazard our lives in de-
fence of our country, in case any emergency shall arise which
may require our services in its behalf.'
" This doctor ation will be signed by all men who are pre-
pared to abide by it, and we trust by no others. It is not a
light undertaking, and must not be lightly assumed : for it
involves life and honour. It will, of course, be signed
openly, and the names published, or otherwise plead be-
fore the country. Men fit for this country are not ashamed
of their country or their devotion to her sacred cause. God
speed the army of the people."
DRILLING AND TRAINING. -A circular has been ad-
dressed by the government to the magistrates of petty ses-
sions throughout Ireland on the subject of drilling, with the
view that the peasantry should be informed of the perils
they incur by following such illegal pursuits. The following
is a copy :
Dublin Castle, lath April,
Gentlemen,-Varions reports having been reamed by the govern-
ment of meetings and assemblies of persons for the purpose of train-
ing and drilling themselven, or of being trained or drilled to the use
of arms, or of practising military movements or evolutions, I am di-
reeted by the Lord Lieutenant to call your attention to the act 60th
Den. 111. and taut.. IV. a I, by which all such meetings and as-
semblies pinhole with such authority as is therein mentioned) are pro-
hibited ; and persons training and drilling others or attending such
meetings for the purpose of doing so, or who aid or sang in
drilling others, are liable to be punished by tronsportation or impel-
.o.nment ; and three who are so trained or drilled, or shall attend foe
that purpose, to berthed and imprisoned, by sentence of the court of
Guises or quarter sessions.-I am, fee., T. N. RLDIMOTON.
ADDlteeit TO THE LORD LIEUTENANT.-Today the fore-
man and twenty-one of the grand jury of the county of
Dublin waited on the Lord Lieutenant wi.h an address of
loyalty to tre crown, and confidence in the government of
his excellency. In his reply the noble earl said :-
Your loyalty to our emeriti, Sovereign and your attachmeet to our
constitution could sever be doubted ; but the public declaration of
your principles is of infinite value and importance at a mamma elms
evil disposed men reek to turn to their own account the Anna of
the people and the events that have occurred abroad, and are mass.
I Touring, by seditisus speeches and publications, to stimuli=
of sanguinary violence among her Niajeety'etubjects in this
These attempts, I am convinced, will signally fail; but it Is
I most weed that the ill effects which they bare already pro-
duvet should be placed on record by gentlemen so well acquainted
I with the condition and so deeply interested in the welfare of the
I county and city of Dublin. You state, mast justly, that they not only
• create alarm among the well-disposed potion of the community, hut
' that to the country at large the connequences are dirastrous, for
during a relied of agitation that confidence ie destroyed without
which neither trade nor commerce can tourish-industrial pursuits
are unavoidably suspended-all classes are injured -but the injury
must, bet mid doubt, tall more directly and heavily upon those whose
only property is their labour, and whose ewstence depends upon
their employment. I shall, with entire confidence, rely upon your
offers of resistance, should the necessity for availing mysell of
them unfortunately maw ; but I trust that the measure. adopted
for maintaining rder will continue, and prove, as they have
hitherto done, sufficient for that MI-important object; and with you I
venture to hope, that when people more fully comprehend the delu-
sions practised upon them the present excitemeet will gradually sub.
side, and that the blessings of tranquillity will he restored. Never
were those tflesOrlies more needed for Ireland than now, when she
slowly recovering from the effect. of a terrible calamity-and the
people, where undisturbed by reckless agitators, are everywhere L-
lama-view with remarkable industry. Never would capital, owing to a
variety of causes, be more ready than now to flow into Ireland, and
spread it. vivifying influence throughout the whole social system, if
the security of law and order could be relied upon-and at no time, I
will renture to say, have the government and the legislature been
more ready to redress every acknowlediced grievance of Ireland, or
more anxious that the restoration of peace should be followed by con-
tentment and prosperity.
SAVINGS BANKti.-In consequence of the recently-dis-
covered defalcation in the Tralee savings bank " a run "
has commenced on that of Killarney, and what is most
afflicting, defalcations have been du .overed there also. The
clerk of the latter is in prison, and the actuary fled. The
Trslee defalcations amount to 35 01)01.
THE WHOLE or THE CATHOLIC PRIESTS of Cleric and
Rees have signed an address to her Majesty in favour of re-
peal. TEose of Wwerford and Lismore are said to be about
to ad..pt a similar course.

SCOTLAND.
EDINBURGH, APRIL 21,
A requisition, signed by about a hundred electors,
was sent to the provost of Stirling, to call a public
meeting to petition for complete suffrage ; but the
request was declined. The requisitionists then passed
the following resolutions:
I. That being deeply impressed with a conviction of the evils
arising from clam legialation, and the suffering thereby inflicted upon
our induatrious fellow-subjects, tine meeting emphatically affirm
j that a large majority of the people of this country are unjustly
excluded from that full, fair, and free exercise of the elective franchise
to which they are entitled by the great principle of Christian equity,
and even also by the British constitution; lor agreeably to Judge
Blackstone's Commentaries—"No subject of England can be con-
strained to pay any aid or Mum, even for the realm or the support of
the government, but such as are impeded by his owa consent, or that
of his representative in parliament.."--J. That this meeting repu-
diates every other mean, to obtain characterlete enfranchisement of
the people than those of a peaceful Any other than three
which appeal to the moral, religious, and intellectual mime of men,
it unequivocally condemns.-3. That a petition, praying for the
complete enfriu3chisemeat of the male adult population of the United
Kingdom, be drawn up, and signed by the inhabitants of Stirling, and
entrusted to J. B. Smith, Esq., M.P.
The fund for the unemployed in Edinburgh amounts
to 1,2501., from which 5001. will have to be deducted
for debts already incurred, leaving only as much
money as will enable the committee to keep up their
present relief operations for three weeks, while every
day is bringing hosts of new applicants whose claims
cannot be attended to. In connexion with this topic,
and as a warning in regard to the economy of timely
relief, it may be mentioned in regard to the damage
caused by the late riots in Glasgow, that an opinion
of counsel has been obtained that all claims must be
Paid by an assessment oa the inhabitants.

Two NOTICEABLE THIALe took place at last Sheriff's
Court in Cupar. The first was the imprisonment for six
months of a deacon of the free-church, who had appropriated
291. 10b. of church subscriptions to his own use. The second
was that of a hawker, who was sent to gaol for twelve
months for imposing on the lieges by a sale of a pretended
bankrupt stock of cloth. The goods were represented as
being of tke best quality, but were ink ity worthless, and
the prisoner's counsel pleaded in for the license of
drapers' rhetoric.

PROVINCIAL.
CHESHIRE.
EXECUTION OF A MURDERER.—The convict Wm.
Bates, the highwayman, was executed on Saturday et
Cheater. It will be recollected that at the recent Cheshire
assizes, William Bates, aged 20, and John Walmsley, aged
20, were convicted of highway robbery and murder under
circumstances of great atrocity. On the ISth of Feb. last a
corn dealer named Enka was returning home from Mar
elesfield, whey be was stopped by the prisoners, who pre-
rented loaded pistols at him, and demanded his money.
Enick being a powerful man a desperate struggle took place
between them, hut he was eventually overpowered and
knocked down with the butt-tad of the ',muds, and lay oath*
ground blvding, when a labouring man c..imiog up the
prisoners took to their heels. The news of the outrage reach-
mg the ears of some men at an adjacent farm, who saw the
highwaymen cross the fields, they went in pursuit,
and were fart gaining on them, when the two suddenly
turned round, and presenting each a brace of loaded pistols,
swore they would shoot whoever dared to follow them. Their
pureaers, however, increasing in number, they placed their
Lacks against a fence and presented their pistols againa',:a
mob. Two brothers, named Wyatt, more determined that
the rest, spring forward to seize them, and were both in-
stantly shot, Bates shooting Wm. Wyatt in the abdomen,
and the other Wyatt receiving Walmslev% fire in his arm.
William Wyatt died a few hours afterwards. The prismers
were instantly secured. On Thursday a reprieve for
Walmsley was received by the governor of Chester Castle.
Between twelve and one o'clock on Saturday morning the
convict Bates was removed from the castle to the place of
execution by the city sheriff and a strong body of police. At
eight o'clock the execution took place. The culprit, when
led forth, appeared perfectly firm, and prayed fervently.
Every nett mart. preparation being completed, the bolt was
withdrawn, and thewretched man died apparently without a
struggle. There was an immen e concourse of persons.
NIYSTERIOU6 AFFAIR.—On Sunday, the 16th inst.,
a number of boys, in returning from Frobbain to Runcorn,
passed through Rocksavege, and amused themselves by
throwing stones at a crow • neat. One of them, on entering
• field in search of a stone, found a mahogany box, such as
is usually carried by travelling jewellers. The lid we'
broken into pieces, and the box was empty. There were
several marks of blood upon the lid and outside of the box,
and also in the inside, all of wbsch appeared to be quite
fresh. One of the boys proposed to his companions to search
the wood adjoining the field, but they refueed to assist him,
and the vox was carried to Runcorn. Information was
given to the active chief constable of Runcorn;
and, on the following day, he, with assistants, pro-
ceeded to examine the field near to the spot where the
box was found. They discovered a breast-pm, a knife, and
two steel pens. The woods and adjacent grounds were
then starched, but without sllCCess. On Tuesday, a wider
still unsuccessful. On

Sutton, near Frodeham, on Saturday, within half a
mile of
the place where the boa was found, carrying. a similar one,
but no further trace of this man can be obtaned. It is to
be feared that a deed of violence and bloodshed has been
committed. The road from Rocksavage to Runcorn is
peculiarly lonely. being • footpath through &lie ; and
in the township of Rocksavaoe, or Clifton, thcre are only
two houses, occupied by two farmers, who rent the land.
But it appears that the murder has not been there com-
mitted, but that the spot has been selected, from its loneli-
ness, as a safe place for the division of plunder by the parties
whose hands were t, en reeking with the blood of their mur-
dered victim. There are many retired and sequestered die-
triets in the neighbourhood of Frodeham, with a scattered
house here sod there, where parties might be assailed,
robbed, and even murdered, without the certainty of imme-
diate detection. That this murder, if murder it be, must
have been committed in the open daylight, is almost certain,
from the known fact that Jew pedlars never travel through
the country after sunset.
LANCASHIRE.
MR. O'CONNOR attended a Chartist meeting in the
City-hall, Manchester, on the evening of Good Friday, at
which he announced his intention to go with the new move-
ment, at the head of which are Mr. Cobden, Mr: Home, and
other liberal members, so far at it might carry him, but he
would still stick to " the ohartee and no surrender " He de-
clared himself against physical force; said the late violent
speeches in London, prior to "Convention Manday" had
caused hint greater anxiety, in the fear that "his dear
children" might be induced to rush on the bayonets of a
trained soldiery and spill their blood in vain, than he ever
suffered in his life before ; he declared his sympathy for the
Irish revolutionary leaders, and said he really thought he
should once more go over to Dublin, mount his wig and
gown, and take his seat at the bar as one of the counsel for
the defence.
YORKSIIIRE.
MALICIOUS SHOOTING.—On Good Friday, shortly
after noon, as the congregation were leaving the Indepen-
de. ts' Chapel at Dewsbury, a young man deliberately fired
• pistol at Mr. Simon Crawshaw, currier, of the Market-
place, and wounded him in the upper part of the back, near
the spine. The assailant was immediately secured, and
proved to lie one George Waterhouse, the son of a pe'r'son
now deceased, who was formerly minister of the chapel at
which Mr. Crewels.; had been attending, and of which he
is a deacon. The prisoner is a journeyman grocer, and has
been for some time residing at Leeds out of employment, hie
mother residing at •Shetfleld. The surgeons were called in
without delay, and on examination it was found that Mr.
Crawehaw had been hit by two 5m.,11 slugs, and that one of
them had lodged in the body. He was going oar favourably on
Saturday. The intended assassin was brought before the
going magistrates at Dewsbury on Saturday, and was re-
manded for further examination.
WARWICKSHIRE.
THE REFORM MOVEMENTS IN BIRMINGHAM.-0111
correspondent, writing on Saturday night, says: The
breeze for reform which has set in here promises to stiffen
into a gale—such an one as will find sympathy with all the
true liberals in the country. This morniug a monster
placard was appended to the walls, covered withler names
printed in very small type. It is neither more nor , than
a solemn declaration by the und, signed, " that they ear-
neatly desire the following political changes, and declare
their determination to obtain the same by all peaceful and
constitutional means: Household suffrage, vote by ballot,
triennial parliaments, and electoral districts." There are
considerably more than a thousand signatures already ap-
pended to this rather formidable-looking document, and it
becomes important when the fact is borin in mind that this
is not a " monster petition ;" it has nethieg id the chap:: of a
false pretence about it. On looking over the list of names I
see those of nearly all the most respectable mercantile
houses : there are three-fourths of the aldermen of the
borough, at least an equal proportion of the town
councillors, a fair sprinkling of magistrates, and the list
is headed by • brace of M.P.'s—to wit, George Fred. blunts
and William Schelefield. The signatures are chi, fly tt. me of
etcetera ; the placard is receiving additions hourly, and bids
fair to he the nucleus of a movement here as formidable r
that of 1531. There seems to he just now quite a fervour
for this sort of thing here. During the past week there
have issued from various pens a whole batch of pamphlets
on the subject of the present crisis, of the reforms whit:. are
declared to be netts' cry, and of the means to be taken foe
securing them. Some portions of these ephemera are funny
enough ; I purchased half* dozen to-day for and inclose
them for your especial amusement, if nut edification.
Amongst them is one from that veteran reformer, Thomas
Clutton Salt; it is in the shape of a remonstrance to the
magistrates for swearing in special constaibloi, which he
deems impolitic : and he appeals for right and justice to the
thei ashte 53.0 t 13y, and fe
ars. rvidly dle
, nextae 11:7°,17,1,,deoriase
iant &dui? eretriemne
or ,
vein ; it is an address to the middle classes on the present
crisis, by Geo. Dawson, M.A., and is calm and philosophic as
his lectures, which thousands in Manchestr and elsewhere
have listened to with wonderment and admiration. A third
is in the "fire and brimerone " style, from one Geo. Mantle,
ouvrier. The writer addresses himself to Lord John
Russell he is clearly a physic sl-force chartist. lie com-
mences with the declaration that " the people have decreed
a revolution," and that " there will be one ; ' and ha quaintly
winds up hie effusion with the consolatory piece of informa-
tion to the prime minister that he is his C. mortal enemy and
determined foe." The three of these nublica'ies a I have
thus briefly noticed being a fair specimen oftheir class,
I leave the remainder to you. It is quite obvious that the
movement is as taming • very important character, and that
it will no more be put down by vague promises than the one
that carried the bill of 1532.
LINCOLNSHIRE.
MANAGEMENT OF FALLOWB.—'IIIe monthly meet-
ing of the Spelling and Draping Fen Farmers Club, on
Tuesday last, was well attended. The subject for discussion,
" The best method of managing Fellows," was brought for-
ward by Mr. R. Parr, of Deepiog Fen, and, after an in-
teresting debate, the following resolution was unanimously
agreed to : " That, in this part of the c nntry, fellows are
best ploughed up sufficiently early in the spring to let the
weeds vegetate before again stirring ; and afterwards, when
the root-weeds are brought up to the top they should be
carted off instead of being allowed to remain for the sun to
kill, and the soil should be made solid before depositing the
seed."
LEICESTER-SHIRE.
THE REFORM MOVEMENT.—At a public meeting
held io the Amphitheatre, Leicester, last week, and nume-
rously attended, the fo:lowing resolutions were agretcl to:
dThat this meeting, believing that the only equitable source
governroental power is the people, and that such power, to be duly
and legitimately exercised for the common weal, must be derived,
from the universal suffrages of the people, as expressed through tbeie
representetivera and which can only be secured by the princioniple,
of the
eon.
taixed in the national charter, protests ageing the constitut
present legislature of Great Britain as partial and unjust, and as only
calculated to represent the opinions and promote the intent.res. of an
inconsider dale minority or the kingdom. That regarding nd un-
fettered discussion, in public meeting or otherwise, as the founddices
of all liberty and ruth, and deeming that theta+, already inexistense
against treason and reedit ion are more than *depute to meet
ent tor U any ewm
er-
geney, this nue' ing views the measure in by governm
alleged " better security of the crown and government of the noun.
try " as anouteage upon the common sense of the peoVe, se a dine,
Infringement of constitutional freedom of @leech, as fraught with
danger to the personal liberty of every independent teaser, and as
tending to undermine the civil and religimu liberty of the a hole na-
tion. That the majority of the members of the present Home of
Commons, while profiting to be the representatives of the people,
meet unequivocally exhibit their purely arietocratic character, by
wsiformly opposing all rcewures of government retrenehment, by dis.
regarding and treatinewith contempt all petitions for the C0DC(1,409 of
popular rights, and by assailing with derision those honest and inde-
pendent repreweiauyes who arc true to the interests of the nation.
That while holding in the utmost detestation the helicon and ignoble
conduct of the majority in the House of Commons, fee its canon
abuse of the faithful representatives of the people, this meeting con-
siders that Richard Gardner, Fseq., and Sir Joshua NValinieley, Nl.P.'s
for Leicester, are entitled to the cordial thanks of the liberal subs.
bitards of this town for their able and coexistent advocacy of re-
trenyhnient and reform, and for their determined opposition, in the
fare of who and tory jeers, to the measure of the government us-
fringing the rights and liberties of the people; and that a memorial
conyey.ng such thanks be presented to Uw ge
e ntleme That
rester lie opened for this borough, in which the name.. are, residence;
and occupation of every person who is in favour of universal suffrage,
and the principles stated in the national charter, shell be enured ;
and this meeting recommends the inhabitants of every city, town ape
village in the Hellish Islands to do the eanie, in order that the opinions
of the who!, population may be fully ascertained on these important
subjects.
A MOST DEPLORABLE AFFAIR took place on Thum
day Ist, in the vicinity of the Water-hou-e, a secluded spot,
situate at liertingfordbury. The Water-hous e as it is
termed, is an old-fashioned building, erected over a running
stream, formerly a keeper's lodge, and is occupied by sat
agricultural labourer named Clark. About lit o'clock is
Thursday forenoon. • shepherd, who was attending his fioek
in a neighbouring field, heard the report of fire-arms in the
direction of the Water-house, and soon afterwards saw the
son of Clark, a boy of about 14 years of ere, running
to a female who was sitting oa the groueil, but as
alarm being given of anything serious having Oc-
curred he took no notice of the circumstance. A short
line after, the boy, it appears, went to the residence o
Miss Robert', a lady living in an adjacent farm. and told her
ome one had shot elm. Huckle (who, 1.. should he observed,
was an elderly female, 68 years of age, and who kid come to
Ciark's house during the absence of Mrs. Ciark in Loadrdi),
but who had done it he did not know." Mrs. Roberts im-
mediately went over to the house, where she found the
unfortunate woman weltering in her blood, and in a dying
state. She exclaimed, "Oh, Lord! I must die: it was Bill
who did it." The boy contradicted her, say ins, " No, it wee
not me." Before medical assistance could be procured
she
expired. The boy was taken into custody. An inquest was
held on the body by Mr. Turner, the coroner, which lasted
several hours. *Ultimately the boy came forward, and ad-
mitted, with stolid apathy, that he was the accidental cause
of the poor woman's death. He said be was shooting at birds
in a walnut-tree, when the gun went off accidentally. The
coroner, having sere rely reprimanded him for the falsehoods
which he had told, the jury, after comiderable discussion,
returned a verdict of "Accidental death."—lhe boy, how-
ever, still remains in cmtodv
US of the police.
SSEX.
THE INCORPORATION OF BRIGHTON.—The question
whether Brighten shall be incorporated or not leas at length
been answered in a manner that must conviece, if it doss
not satisfy, every one. The question has been put to the in-
habitants in two ways—first, as vestrymen, voting according
to the amount of their usessment to the poor-rates. and the
answer wee against iccorperation by a melonty of 601 votes;
secondly, as sample rate-payers, each person having use vote,
and the answer was still more decided. Alter three days'
poll, which closed on Thursday, the numbers were declared
as follows Against incorporataon, 1,419; for a committee ef
.

nal bafeteu on tne nosias ~,„n Karene.
located in a barrack; the notice sug-
is in order to prevent " fratern.isation." Wednesday_ the Fearer Canal was dragged
rangThs' -- was taken, but the parties were still unsuciemful. On •s totiows
.li6igaiosiu,orrrrt , .
6-3 Th
0 'altiSnd rsalln I 'and majority
Zcel""drat'' del ulert
a rumour that, at the meeting of the Bridge to Weston Point, but to no purpme. n uay property num rs have art that it wo
nraday, a number of persons enrolled the grappling ins, weft put into r‘quiAtion at the pi? mad be advantageous to incorpor•te.Brighton.
national guards. The Nation does not poncla in the neighbourhood of Rocksavage, but with similar
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GLOCCE,TLEFAIIRE. . •
Testa, It appears that 011 Friday a Jew pedlar, • POST-OFFICE DELINCIC ENCT.--AE am.•
ay national guards were enrolled on that
stranger, slept at a lodging-house in Runcorn. ilia bed- Post-office authorities has taken place d •
in the following article it alludes to the fellow, a tailor, has seen the boa, and says he believes it is relative to a packet of papers add
f such a course being taken : the same which the Jew bad with blua, but he will not solicitor, Cheltenham, by Mr. Coppoek,:
E'S Powza.—The popular power, arrayed . .ssz :b fact. Amat or Jewish mita was sem at liamtutary agent for the petitioners rig • .14.
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