The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-12 00:00:00

ITALY.

Our Roman correspondent states, in his letter of the
4th, that the Austrian commandant of Furl had caused
a young boy to be flogged to death for accidentally
killing his dog with a stone. Count Nobili, the
Austrian governor of Bologna, had issued a notice
on the 27th ult. menacing with the bastinado all who
were caught in preventing the inhabitants from
smoking, and atatu:g that all such offences, having
; a political aim, are liable to be punished by court-
martial.

SLIMILY Evextvo.
The Tatri, contains a vehement disavowal of Dr.
h'eron's plan for abrogating the law of May. which
it regards as the standard round which the party of
order mast rally. TUSCANY.
The papers are filled with comments upon the new The C,,,911:i,05ah. of Florence announces from
plisse of the e.,msfieuti,iiiiri. The sanguine eager- Rome. that on the 27th ult., Signor Baldasseroni and lies, with which the republican oritans.junip lit the Cardinal .lutonelli came to an agreement about the
o: a coalition with the Bonapartlsts for awls continuation of the Bologna llailre';a to pistols.l gating the law of Mac, affords the best proof of the Nothing has been decided as yet eAccrning
pleitic intentions of the democratic party, provided way from Slena to Rome.

On the 2filh four peasants were shot at Forlim-
popoli fe.r having given shelter to post of the Naas-
tore's 'oand.

GERMANY.
AUSTRIA AND THE DRESDEN
CONFERENCES.
The Austrian government has lately sent a circular
to all the German courts, of which the following is a
summary. The authority for this account of the
contents of the circular is the .Isyslntry
The preamble of the document states that the con-
tinuation of the Dresden conferences for a further
indefinite period seems useless, and therefore it is
necessary that they should close. However, as nego-
tiations are still pending between the cabinets of
Berlin and Vienna, on the understanding that Aus-
tria shall admit all her states into the confederation,
it would be desirable first to come to an agree-
ment on this point, and then to make a common
proposal at Dresden. But should the two powers
fail in coming to terms, it is proposed by Austria
that a communication should be made to the congress
by the plenipotentiaries of Austria and Prussia, to
the effect that further negotiations on the questions
debated in the first commission (that of federal re-
organization) shall be reserved for the diet. Several
points are, however, withheld from the cognizance
of the diet, of which a summary follows. This com-
munication shall be accompanied by a declaration
that the two cabinets desire to see the other labours
of the commission ended; and if on the With of
May the consent of all the governments cannot
be obtained, the Diet would have to take the final
decisions. As regards the labours of the conferences
concluded up to the I.3th of May with consent of all
parties, they will be submitted to the Diet for formal
sanction.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM-SHIP A.MERICA.

[DY ELECTRIC TELEGR 11'11.j
[FROII OUR ow CORREAPONDENT.)

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNINCt•
By the arrival in our river a few minutes since of
the British and North Amerian Royal Mail steam-
ship America, we are placed in possession of seven
days' later intelligence from the United States and
British possessions on the North American Conti-
nent. _ _

The America sailed from Boston on the 30th ult.,
and made the usual monthly call at Halifax, to land
and receive a portion of the mails and passengers on
the 2nd instant. She brings to this country 111
passengers.
The news from the United States is very meagre.
A steamboat had been seized at New York, charged
with having been intended for the Cuban expedition.
Six persons had been arrested and held to bail.
The Erie Railroad was completed as far us Lake
Eric. _

Sir Henry Bulwer delivered a long address at the
St. George's Society, on the 23rd of April.
From Mexico dates are to the 9th of April. The
financial condition of the republic was deplorable. A
formal complaint had been made by the ministry of
the United States government as to the Indian out-
rages on the frontier, which by treaty the United
States was bound to protect. Mexico refuses to
ratify the Tehuantepec treaty us yet.
Truzina and Company, Mexico, had failed for
239,000 t. sterling.
Business throughout the states was in an excellent
condition. The export of specie for New York con-
tinued to be on a considerable scale, and seemed

The following arc the proposals which Austria is
desirous of having conclusively adopted by the con-
ferences and referred to the Diet only for sanction :
1. The proposal. of the second commission on the subject
of voting, the plans adopted us regards voting by unani-
mity or majority, to apply, not as at first intended, to a new
central power, but to the plenum and the restricted council.
2. The proposals of the second commission on the
relations of the central power with particular states.
These are proposals which have already hero
modified according to the views of the governments.
3. The question of at:Unwilling the fundamental rights
voted by the Frankfurt Assembly. 4. The proposals of the
thinl commission on material questions, in so far as they
shall be decided on before the 13th of May. The rem•
nant to be finished at Frankfort. 5. The adoption of the
principle proposed by the first commission that the ques-
tion of vote in the l)iet cannot he shirked on the plea of
want of instructions. 6. The principle that the confedera-
tion must always have on foot, and ready to meet internal
or external dangers, an army of 121,000 men; the levies of
the smaller states to by required only when war actually
breaks out.

likely to continue, as quotations for English exchange
had not given way. The money market continued
in a satialactory state. 3loney was by no means
scarce. The demand for stouts was tirin, at former
rates.

There was little doing in breadstuff. at receding
prices. Western Canal flour, 4 ill. 31;e. to
4 dols. 50c. per brl. Gennessee prime wheat,
1 dol. 12c. to 1 dol. 14c. per 601bs. Indian corn,
round yellow, 62c. to 64c. per bushel, steady. Indian
meal, 3 dols. 121 c. to 3 dols per brl.
The cotton market at New York continued in a
depressed condition. Sales could not be made ex-
cept at a reduction, which holders generally had
submitted to. New Orleans and Mobile mid. fair to'
fair, 111 c. to 12;e. per lb. Uplands and Florida
mid fair to fair, 101 e. to per lb. The current ex-
cess of receipts was 20,000 bales over that of last
year. Prices declined on the arrival of the Asia's
news.

Such arc the points which the cabinet of Vienna
desires to see conclusively settled before the breaking
up of the conferences of Dresden. If this desire can-
not, however, be gratified, Austria will be satisfied
to send the subject for debate before the Diet ; and
in a plenary sitting all the points will be communi-
cated to the plenipotentiaries, who would transmit
them to their respective governments, these in turn
forwarding them to the Diet. The eentrul commit-
tee would then be immediately dissolved, and its
powers vested in the Diet.
This is a sketch of the Austrian circular. It may
be supposed that as regards the question of voting
l'russia can have but one opinion, and that in favour
of the system of unanimity already prevailing in the
Diet.

Provisions were in goad demand, at former prices.
Freights were inactive, and low in quotation.
Exchange on London, 1 lii4 to I lui ,',gooddemand),;
Paris, 5.10; llamburgh, to 36;; Bremen, 711 i
to 791.

FATHER GAVAZZPS NINETEENTH ORATION,
YESTERDAY, IN THE PRLNCESS'S CON-
CERT-HALL

As for the other points, they are not very specific,
and if Prussia stands firm on the question of admit-
ting all Austria's states into the confederation, and
on that of unanimous votes in the Diet, it is difficult
to see what Austria will have gained at the much
talked of conferences of Dresden.

AURICULAR CONFESSION. P►llr I.

This address, to which his countrymen listened
with deep interest, offered no passage of exciting
eloquence, no appeal to the feelings of an impassioned
auditory, being a simple recital of doctrinal proofs,
and a calm exposition of scriptural authorities. The
theory of the confessional was admitted by its advo-
cates to be enveloped in mist and mystery, its war-
rant unsatisfactory, its origin indefinable, its develop-
ment gradual, its practical working surrounded with
objections. The council of Trent had, nevertheless,
not hesitated to assert its institution to be of divine
' right (14th session), and scouted the suspicion of its
merely human enactment. Hut in that tumultuous
assembly, swayed by a preponderatin and com-
pact majority of interested Italians, it was far
easier to put a matter to the vote than
to the proof; and of all the oppressive machinery by
which priestcraft grinds down the laity into abject
dependence, this engine is the must notoriously
traceable to mere clerical ingenuity. Its pedigree
was sought to be established by over zealous ortho-
doxy in connexion with the old law : and the
acknowledgment of sinfulness on the part of the
guilty, ou which Job and Ezekiel frequently laid
emphasis, as an essential preliminary to pardon, was
tortured by scholastic argumentation intoa precedent
for "auricular" confession. To illustrate this sup-
posed analogy a multitude of passages of the Old
Testament were brought forward, amongst others
Lev. xvi. 21 :

The journey to Poland of the King of Prussia is
definitively fixed. He will enter Warsaw on the
13th inst.; it is said to be doubtful whether the
Emperor of Austria will he there at the stone time.
The Emperor of Russia will meet the King of Prussia
on his arrival in Warsaw. M. Manteuffel will, it is
said, accompany King Frederick, and Count :Vessel-
rode the Ctar.

The Prussian Chambers were dosed on the 9th, in
the White-hall of the palace, by the following speech
from NI. Manteutfel:
" Gentlemen,—The Prussian Chambers have reached the
term of their second regular session. Public affairs have ,
for four months appealed to their anxious attention and
strenuous exertions. Their deliberations opened at a cri-
tical
and much disturbed juncture. All the military re-
sources of the nation were called out to meet threatening
dangers on a scale that the Prussian people had never be-
fore seen, and with a success that has given the Prussian
people a full sense of their own strength, and has cam-
ma need the respect of foreign nations. Circumstances in
the mean time intervened which the government of his
Majesty deemed it their duty to take advantage of, in order I
to avoid a war with brother races. But there were other
subjects which, in the then state of things, appealed to the
attention of the Chambers. The patriotism of t he two chambers
has nevertheless avoided conflicts which would have heist Only
fit to endanger the position of Prussia abroad, and to forsju•
dice her interests at home, whilst they would have filled Inc
enemies, both external and internal, with hope. With zeal
have you, gentlemen, fulfilled your duties, and entitled
yourselves to the thanks of your country. Thirty-four hills,
having passed through the chambers, have been laid before
the government, and have, in part, received the royal Salle-
tion. You have also the satisfaction, gentlemen, of leaving
put the last hand to a criminal code, urgently needful, and
which has been in process of preparation [tir mane years.
You have, by your deliberations on the class and classified
income-tax, which has passed into law, furnished a means
I,f meeting the necessities of the state, by which the poorer
elm re
s., will not only he spad the burthen of tax-gathering
but the taxes themselves will be much lightened. The state
expenditure for the year 1841 is settled t and by the grant of
1i million Meilen you have furnished the government with
means of covering the cost occasioned by the calling out of
the military strength of the land, which was nut without
initold and permanent advantaget for the army itself.
If many law project, have not during the sessient been
brought to maturity, the discussion, to which they have
been subjected, and the petition, which have been received
respecting them have at least given the government abundant
materials tier their careful consideration. You have, gen-
tlemen, by the decisions you have come to relative to the
bills that have been laid before you, prised that in all es-
sential matters the government and the legislative bodies
entirely agree. It is the &wire of the government to main-
tain and further to promote this agreement by the careful
observance and vigorous execution of the laws. A retrospect
of this session is alsocalculatetl to corroborate the.conviction
that the good sense of Prussia remain undisturbed tender
the new forms of the constitution, and that the main con
dition of the development of the future destinies of
Prussia must he the maintenance of historic foun-
dations, that the convulsive period we have just
passed through has nut been able to shake. The
enemies of this beneficial Ilevelopcment, the enemies
of all divine and human onlinetnees, are as restless
as the passions that agitate them. But the revolution, is
whatever form it may show itself, will find his Majesty's
government watchful and firm, and l'russia armed. 'llse
threatening position of these enemitesmakes it, other remota
apart, the most urgent duty of all German governments
no lunge,' to leave Germany without a central power, re-
cognised on all sides, at home and abroad. Whether the
German governments return to the old forms of the Diet,
or whether the (by no means abandoned) plans jof a reor-
ganisation of the confederation be brought into Greet, the
independent development of Pniseda will be in no respect,
in either case, endangered. But the truest and surest gun
nuntee for a happy and glorious future, fur political and
material improvement, for the increasing interim welfare
of the land, and its power and influence abroad, you
will find, gentlemen, in thf indefatigabk CO-operating%
• and cordial unanimity of all those who in truth and loyalty
have the old motto, the old inscription, written on their
hearts—. With God, fur King and Fatherland.' "

And Aaron stall lay both hit kin& on the head of the
live goat and einifett over him ail the iniquitiet of the
Children of Israel, and all their tr.un¢re.•ion• in all their tint,
putting them on the head of the goat, tiud than tend hint
away by the hand at a llt man into the stildtrnett.

These and similar inconclusive references were to
sane logicians so obviously nugatory that Thomas
Aquinas had fairly given up the matter us not
proven. The case of patients afflicted with leprosy
orelephantiusis, who were commanded to exhibit
their syinptoms to the Judaic priesthood, was clearly a
sanitary regulation, these functionaries in the Ilebrew
theocracy being invested with municipal administra-
tion, and it being indispensable in the civil and social
economy to prevent the spread of u contagious
disease so fatal at that period among Oriental tribes.
The fitting corollary would be public dispensaries,
not private confessionals. Hut, dismissing all these
allegorical reasonings, and coining to the supposed
allegations found in the Gospel, he found that alle-
gory was still the predominant element in the sus-
tentation of this claim, and the famous " power of
the keys" the main groundwork of its assertion.
The ceremony of presenting conquerors with the
keys of a subjugated town and the constant allusions
in scripture to the gates of a city as the emblems of
force and authority, were overlooked in the construc-
tion of these passages, the literal interpretation of
which would involve the manifestly madmissahle
theory of man being completely at the capricious
mercy of his fellow mortal for admission into God's
inheritance in direct contradiction to the solemn and
inspired announcement. Revelation iii. 7.

The President of the Second Chamber, Count Schwerin,
in his closing address, congratulated the Chamber on the
labours of the session, inasmuch as the legislature had got
at least out of its provisional state, and had passed many
positive laws. In contemplating, however, he added, the
political state of Germany, the eye found no single spot on
which it could rest with satisfaction. The struggle between
the past and the future still continued; unanimity was no
and discontent everywhere ; that he would not from
that place pronounce any Judgment on measures or men,
but trusted that a protective Providence would watch over
Prussia, and guide her through all obstacles, however for-
midable thee might appear, to the fulfilment of destinies
in which the whole fatherland was interested.
King Otho arrived at Trieste on the sth of May,
on his return to Venice.

Ile that hath an ear let him Lear what the spirit with
unto the churches. Three things saith Ile that is holy, Ile
that is true, Ile that bath the key of David, Ile that
upeneth and nu man shuttetli, and shutteth and nu man
openeth.

In anticipation of the meeting of the Diet on the
22nd inst., the garrison of Frankfort is to be in-
missed from 5,000 to 15,000 men, at once. This
corps will form the nucleus of a force which is des-
tined to reach the number of 150,000 men, intended,
according to the latest arrangements, to be kept at
the disposal of the Diet

The text of 16th Matthew, in which this meta-
phorical transmission of keys to Peter occurred, was
next sifted with masterly criticism, and its hearing
on the exclusive and individual prerogatives of the
presumed successor of Peter shown to be hardly com-
patible with a general particieation of the priesthood
in the prerogative of forgiving sin. An intimate
acquaintance with the writings of Aiwistiii, Chry-
modem, Tremens, &c., was evinced in the crowd of
quotations which the speaker flung into his argu-
ment. Nor were the less conspicuous and more mo-
dern authorities of Bonaventura, Peter Lombard,
Maldonatus, and Denis the Carthusian, less copiously
drawn upon for corroborating testimony. Cardinal
Cajetan, whose name was heard frequently amid the
din of controversy, at the outbreak of the Reforma-
tion, had admitted that the New Testament furnished
no direct warrant for auricular avowal to a priest ;
that the words of Paul as to the preeamtory process
before a fitting reception of the Lords Supper, " Let
a man examine himself (pro/oct seiesuin); and so let
him eat of that bread and drink of that cup" (1 Cor.;
ii. 28), seemed to point to a quite different conclusion
but the pertinacity of the schoolmen when direct evi-
dence was either not forthcoming or broke down,
still took convenient refuge in allegory,and a fanciful
inference as to the necessity of a power in man to
unloose from sin even when God had forgiven there-
. pentant sinner was drawn from the injunction of
II Jesus in the case of the resuscitated Lazarus:
, I And he that was dead came forth bound hand and foot
i with grave clothes and hi. face was bound about with a
' napkin. Jesus said unto them, " Loose him and let him
t go._ (John, ii 44).

PROJECTED DOCKS AT STOCKTON-TPON-TEES.—AI very important meeting was held in the Town-hall, Stock- I
ton, on :Monday, to consider business relating to the report
of the government engineer, concerning the conservaney of
the river Tem, and other matters connected therewith.
Extracts from the report of Mr. Bald, the government engi-
neer, were given, from which it appeared that tho best
' situation for the t stahli,hment of docks was the town of
Stockton, and that the fiver Tees might advantl,geously be
' made navigable to Yarm. Most enerstetit• and prompt
measures to carry out the plan alluded to in the report will
be proceeded with, the Tees Navigation Company and the
inhabitants combining together for this purpose. There
'run% a cliseentient voice ge the meeting.

Of equal value and corresponding relevance were
the other scriptural attempts to vindicate this pre-
posterous assumption.
The total absence of any allusion to this secret
' practice in the records of early Christianity, while
the frequent reference made to public declarations of
, guilt before the assemblies of the faithful in the first
centuries went to demonstrate the nature of church
discipline, salutary and inoffensive in the one case,
and indicative in the other of the tendency to dege-
nerate to which all human arrangements are
liable; for nothing could be more clear than
Ithe gradual subsidence of public confession
(a voluntary self-htuniliation) into the private abuse

of auricular and compulsory disclosures. The evi-
dences of this comparatively modern substitution of a
demoralising and repulsive practice for an ancient
. edifying and impressive ceremony were abundant in
the pages of ecclesiastical history, and it required no
less audacity than that of Pope Innocent 111. (the
contemporary of John !Ackland mud Cardinal I'un-
dolfo) to exercise over Christendom the same tyranny
that he attempted in England, and openly incorpo-
, rate the confessional into the dogmatic teaching of
!tome, by insisting on its first formal establishment
at the fourth council of Lateran, a. It, 1212. The
speaker's object in this first part of his inquiry into
a painful subject being merely to elucidate the facts
and arguments usually alleged for its acceptance as
a Christian institution (of which we can only give
the above meagre outline), he reserved for next occa-
sion the development of its moral and social ineonv.2-
nienees and evils, from a long personal experience of
its working.
His discourse, which had been singularly.dispas-
sionate, kindled up at the close with u glowing pic-
ture of the weeping penitent of Bethany at the list
of the Redeemer, anointing them with the precious
perfumes hitherto lavished in extravagance and
guilt, unabashed by the presence of the Pharisees,
who rebuked her, and seeking forgiveness from him
alone whom she had offended:

4S. And he said unto her thy sins arc tori;iven.
49. And they that at at meat with him began to say,
within themselves, who is this that forgiveth
(Luke 7.)
- _

So convinced were these doctors of the law that an
infringement on the attributes of the godhead was
involved in the solemn act of forgiveness; a condo-
nation vouchsafed to silent but sincere repentance, un-
attended with pharisaic conditions, irrespective of
detailed disclosures, unaccompanied by irrelevant or
loathsome revelations, but elicited at once by tho
fervour of divine love, genuine sorrow, and con-
trition.

that in the time of tea deems they hod had
METROPOLITAN SANITAILY ASSOCI.ITION.
_ _ . a pretty goo.l opportunity ef Jodifile between this eo-eallell
centralisation and what he migisthe thought, call " rev-
The members and friends of the Metropolitan ryliution." (Loud laughter.) ' dared that the
Sae:tory Amici Won dincel together on Saturday evening ' company preeent had read the reports of the Cholera Board
at lia:e.house, Kensington. This was the tied public •of I valth, and 1w dared to say they had also read reports
dinier of the society, and its o'eeet, it is understood, hail of certain vestries. (Laughter.) Ile had the honour of
reference to financial which the present, of a beloaging to a tonstitnency which elected that unlacing
kirec tompeny who responded liherally to the appeals for body. the Slerylebone vestry—(laughter)—and he thought
subscriptions will doubtless have done much to relieve. that if the company present would look to what Mall done
TLi..i was. the first occasion on which M. Royer had by the Boanl of IL•alth at Glasgow, and then contrast those
opened his " Symposium" for a public dinner, and the proceedings with the wonderful cleverness with which affairs
grarra;.,pinion eeenwel to be that he h.,1 berm remarkably were managed at the Marne period by his vestry, there would
sae as a caterer. The banquet was held in the large Iw very little difficulty in judeing between them. His (Mr.
lull," erected fee .ut.v in the centre of tee Diekeus.s) vestry even teed( ups itself to deny the exist-
grounds of Gore-home; and in al! the arrangements there I core of cholera as a weak invention of the enemy—
wee an urigivality, governed by tote and tact, which was •; (laughter)—and that denial bad little or no effect in
must acceptable. l'he hall is a lento handeotne room. titto el staying the progress of the disease. With the toast he would
up in a very charming manner, our of its greatest merits cuutee the none of a noble lord, tali eminent member of
being the perfect ventilation. the board—a nobleman whose earuestness in all good works
T 111: Earl of CanLIXLR occupied the chair. no one could doubt, and who had the courage on all
1.12 C loyal and other routine• toasts having Man disposed ace ',ions to face that wont of cents—the cant about the
of, cant of philanthropy and benevolence. (Cheers.)
'flu. CHAIRMAN rose to give the toast of the evening. Lord ARNLEY responded.
llc said—ln calling your attention to the present subject, I Mr. M. SIT este briefly proposed the health of the chair-
fee: that there is one thine above all others I ought to bear Man.—Mr. G. Cuelesit V% K proposed "The Visitors," and
in mind, and that is to commit no trespass against the Mr. Rooms: proposed t• The Ladies."
reenenised laws of health. Now an address after dinner Lit The company separated about eleven o'clock.
undue length would, I am couvinceel• undoubtedly be ouch
a trespaw—(a laugh find perhaps tor digestion and almost
dangerous, and on the part of those who Meer it, calculated
to disturb that placidity of temper which we are told ought
to below upon such a meal as that of which we have just
partaken. I teel that it is not fur me to impress
on each a company as this, which, by its very presnce,
lives an assurance of its own conviction, the importance
and dignity of what Gentled the sanitary caute—(cheere)--
a cause which hoe its business with deaths that may be pre-
vented--(bud trice of " Hear ")—since' as we know, is
districts where, from accident, more fasourable sanitary
soultion exists, these deaths do not occur—(hear)—with
deaths arising from epidemic and contagiouediseaws which
amount to roam 41).000 in the course of every year—(hear)
—with death, consequently outstripping in number, the
enrolee.. of the most destructive c usepaigne sad the nowt pro-
tracted wars—with deaths, moreover, which strike down
th•ne whom our modern warfare especially saves, and cute
off ons-half of Mane districts of all who are born before
they re sch five years of age—with deaths, in fine, which
threaten all, but , specially those who fill the many walks
of huneole life. (Cheer.) Such a came as this is surely
one of solemn importance, which we should do all we can
to Meney in the appreciation of all clangs. I have
alluded to the claims and the dangers of humble labour.
We trive, indeed, close to where we sit, a remarkable
boil lino. which is in itself • shrine of labour, but while we
gaze the wondrous results of its harmonious and com-
pleted romloinations, in all their gorgeous magnificence, let
us not refrain from tracing them beck to that crowded
workelaup, that damp cellar, and that stilling garret, in
which so much of that collected maw of ingenuity and
splendour has been elaboreteel. (Loud cheers.) And we
shell derive, perhaps, not the least precious lesson which
the rryetal Palace itself, in all its completed maturity and
In all it. glittering unity, MD OnCh, if, transferring our
tare from the work to the workmen, wherever it may be
his let to weave the slender thread or guide the ductile
metal, we study as hest we can to surround the scene of
hi. daily labour with wow portion of the dec.neies, the com-
Mirte Lind the enjoyment. with which lie so plentifully en-
rich, • our own. (Cheering.) There is too much reason to fear
gee: :h. stimulus of drink is often warted boas a diversion
to the deprewsing effecte of an uncleanly house or a polluted
atmosphere. (Hear, hear.) And it is well known that the
typhue fever 'elects a 1 irge proportion Lit' its victims from
among the adult population--those in the fall vigour of
holey blouse. It has bean satisfactorily ascertained by those
who have given their attention to the subject, that the
enamel lens arcing from unnecessary eicknese, from deaths,
and the low of labour, amount, to several millions per
annum in England and Wales. Aud I would here observe,
as we. are warranted this year in addreesiug all the nations
of tl.e work!, that whatever our own deficiencies may be,
we du not certainly occupy the least fusourable po
anion, but rather an advanced position us nom red
with other countries. (Hear.) But, gentlemen, before I
give the toast with which I propose to close these remarks,
I weulil beg for a moment to refer to the position
of governments with regard to the sanitary question.
I know it is easy, and probably most of you have remarked
upon their apparent thorn:outings and leackwerdnesses; but
ft mast be, remembered that a large proportion of mankind
is apt to have a very good sense of the evils which iufeed
satiety, and then they helloa on the government to assault
and attack them with great alacrity. hut then the govern-
mint, especielly if it has to deal with representative bodies
—(t. hese, hear," and laughter)—if it should succeed in
remorine the inherent difficulties of the question, often no
lieht nutter, and then should premise a remedial measure,
up rise iminedietely the legion host of vested intereets, of
preseriptive rust ~,,, oe of gnat monuiediee. of coneecrattel
ignerinies—(greet laughter)—and theu many of the good
pepie who have urged the government on to the assault,
are apt to take very little share in the actual burden of the
routine. (Hear, hear.) N.iw, I .ay, that havine no Imager
any councsion with a sanitary department, but with the
mark of past seam about nee, not with a view of delaying or
weakening the respomibility of the government, with re-
gard to this all important —this unceasingly important ques-
tion—l say that recent events have. forcibly pointed out the
necessity there U. fur wine independent body, extrinsic of
the government, to fix public attention and enlighten pule-
lie opinion with rela et to the evil. that exist Laud the
means of cure, available loth as regard, those which lie
within the works of inde, ideal. themselves, and those with
which renernments and legislatures have no right to med-
dle, and also timer which can only lie enforced by public
authority and orgeniseel co-operation—which shall inculcate
and suggest the means of prevention, ten time, more valua-
ble in itself than even the means of cure, and which shall
keep the government up to the mark of its duty, and pre-
vent the reaction which follow. upon all subjects of public
eerie mem. (Loud cheers.) I believe the Metropolitan
Sanitary Afewociation he already done great and extensive•
gond. and that it is desirable us well a, capable of doing
more. It needs not an extravagant or an undue., but a
smelerate and a steady support, and counten nice and con-
triloutions from the public at large. Do not you grudge—
do not refuse. (Loud cheer...) And so in return may the
beelth which it may be your Mewed office to impart to hun li
drele :atom you—for the sanitary cause, popularly under- '
et..l, admit,. of no exuegeretion as to the amount of good
which it may be your bleseed office to secure to merle& yet
auburn—keep you and yours to a ripe old age, and preserve
unbroken the eyinforts and happiness of your own homes.
(('bore.) I beg to give you, gentlemen, "The eletropoli-
tau sanitary Association."
Lord pfui,r.nr rinosVENI.K, as chairman of the acting
committee of the .o.societi 111 l . respmded, na did the Rev. C.
sire as • of the committee of the association.

The CHAIRMAN next proposed the health of " The
&eatery Itetermers its Parliement."
EBRINOTON responded. lie believed that the
sanitary question had only been a parliamentary questiou
nine, IYII, mid that pres blue to the completion of the in-
quiry into the sanitary • lition of the metropolis, iusti-
lutist by the Bishop of London in 1539, no view had been
pnseuted to parliament of sanitary reform as • social and
religious question. He believed that until that time the
public had not been made aware that pestilence suit death
—the great cheeks to population—were two of the greatest
scourges under which the labouring slid industrial classes
of the population were suffering, and were two of
the main causes of distress among those classes.
Until then they did not seem to be aware, or the
feet hail not struck them, that next to a criminal popula-
tion the most expensive was a eliscned population. Ile said
that since he entered parliament a mighty change had been
effected througuuut the civilised world in the view taken of
this question.
Mr. CHARLES DICKENS seat addressed the company.
He prop:net the " Board of Health:* There were very few
words tor him to say upon the needfulness of sanitary re-
form, or the consequent usefulness of the Board of Ilealth.
That no man could estimate the amount of mischief grown
in dirt—that no man could say the evil stops here or stops
there, either, to its mural or physical effects, or could deny
that it began in the cradle and was not at rest in the
miserable grave—was as certain as it was, that
the air front Gin-lane would be carried by an
easterly wind into May-fair, or that the furious
pestilence raging in St. Giles s, no mortal list of lady patron-
esses could keep out of Al:neck's. (Hear.) Fifteen years
ago some of the valuable reports of Mr. Chadwick and Dr.
guuthwood Smith. strengthening and much enlarging his
(Mr. Dickens's) knowledge, had made him earnest in this
cane, in his own sphere, and he could honestly declare that
the use he had since that time made of his eyes and nose
had only strengthened the convictions that certain sanitary
reform must precede all other social remedies—(cheers)—
mid that neither education nor religion could do anything
useful until the way had been paved for their ministrations
by cleanliness and decency. (Hear.) He did not want au-
thority for that opinion, they had heard the speech that
evening of the right reverend prelate--a speech which nu
sanitary reformer could have heard without emotion.
(Hear, hear.) Of what avail was it to send
mioionarits to that miserable man condemned to work in a
fend court with every sense bestowed upon him fur his
health and happiness turned into • torment—with every
month of his life adding to the heap of evils under which
he was condemned to exist ? N hat human sympathy
within him was that instructor to address ?—what natural
nil chord within him was he to touch? Was it the
remenahrance of his children? • memory of destitution,
of sickness, of fever, and of scrofula? Was it his
lone, his latent hopes_ of immortality ? He was so our-
rounded by, end embedded in, material filth, that his soul
mind not rise to the contemplation of the greet truths of
religion. Or if the case was that of • miserable child bred
sad suartsurd in some noisome loathsome place, and I
tempted, in these better days, into the ragged school, what
genial a few hours* teaching effect against the ever-renewed
lesson of • whole existence .1 But give them a glimpse of
heaven through a little of its light and air ; give
them water ; help them to be clean ; lighten that heavy
atineepbere in which their spirits flagged and in which
they became the callous things they were ; take the body of
the dead relative from the close room in which the living
lived with it, and where death, bei familiar, lust its awe ;
sad then they would be brought willingly to hear of Him
whose thoughts were so much with the poor, and
who had compassion for all human suffering. (Cheers.)
Mr. Dickens proceeded to say that the toast
which he had to 'propose, " The Board of Health,"
was entitled to all the honour which could be
neakrred upon it. Thee had very near them, in
Kensington, a transparent illustration that no very great
thing could ever be accomplished without en immense
amount of abuse being heaped upon it. In connection with
the Ward of Health they were always hearing a very large
word which was always pronounced with a very
great relish—the word centralisation. Now ho submitted

ROBBERY OF GOLD DUST ON THE SOUTH

WESTERN RAILWAY.

A few months ago a box of gold, worth 1,3001,,
directed vs be sent by the Oriental Company's mail packet
Ripon to Alexandria, was stolen in Southampton Ducks.
The officer of the Ripon who had charge of shipping the
specie was seespeneled, and the captain of the Ripon has been
obliged to pay. the money. A short time since the Oriental
Company received an anonymous letter from Southampton,
in which it was stated that the writer hail dreamt how the
box of gold could be recovered, and the means of recovery
was pointed out. Every endeavour to effect a commune.
cation with the dreamer has hitherto proved (reifies..
About the time that the Alexandria box of gold
was lost, a box of specie brought by one of
the West India Company's steamers was stolen
after it was landed at Southampton. This specie
turned out to be counterfeit Mexican dollars. A person
was detected exchanging the dollars in Southampton, and
was pre secuttal there for the robbery of them. The evi-
dence., however, was not technically complete, and he was
acquitted.
On Thursday last, the West India Company's steamer
Great Western arrived at Southampton with specie, bullion,
and gold duet from Mexico, California, and the West Indies,
worth nearly a million of dollars. The whole of this was
despatched to London in four waggons by the luggage
train, just before eight o'clock un Thursday night.
The waggons were the ordinary open ones, and
the only covering they had was tarpaulin, fastened
at the sides with curd. two clerks and two messengers be-
longing to the West India Company went up by the lug-
gage train in a closed carriage. Their duties were to guard
the waggons after they arrived in London at two o'clock
the next morning, and to see the gold and silver safely
lodged in the Rank of England. The waggons were
roughly weighed before they left Southampton on Thursday
ni,rlet, and at six o'clock on Friday morning preparations
were Made fur unloading them. The weight of each of them
appeared to be the same, but on examining one of the wag.
gone three boxes, which seeding to the in initial
contained gold dud worth 26,4t10 dollar., or about d,300/.,
were iniasing. A consultation was held, and an experiment
tried as to the practicability of a person getting under the
tarpaulin and cord fastenings without cutting them, and it
wag found that a person could get under and out again in
four minutes. There was no doubt therefore entertained
that a daring and extensive robbery had been effected.
The detective police force was made acquainted
with it, and a special train was seat from Lou.
don to Southampton, warning the statiou-masters
and the railway police on the line of the robbery. At Win-
chester information was given to the county constabulary
and to the city police, and all were on the alert.
Just above the Winchester station there is a bridge cross-
ing the line on the Stockbridge-raced ; close to the bridge
there is a roadside inn reamed the Jolly Farmer, at the fore
door of which there is a path leading down to the railway
fence and to the arch of the bridge. At fire o'clock
on Friday afternoon, a little cowboy named Turpiu '
was bird-nesting near this spot, and in ea thick thorn bush,
chew to the railway arch, he found a box, about a foot long
and hie inches in height and depth, which he took to hie
mistress. It was directed to Dunbar and Lou,, Limehouse,
and was supposed, from its weight, to contain lead or shot.
On account of its having been found close to the rail it was
taken to Mr. Deane, the Winchester station master, and it
proved to be one of the misting boxes of gold dust, the value
of its contents being 6,500 dollars. Two policemen were im-
mediately ordered to watch the spot where the box was
found, and at about 11 o'clock at night au ill-looking fellow,
very respectably dressed, with a hag under his arm, was
even to walk down the path from the Jolly Farmer, and
when within a dozen yards of the thorn bush he was se-
cured by •of the policemen on watch. Ile heel been
walking to and fro an the bridge for hours in the course o
the day, and was continually tailing at the public-house for
something to drink. lie was had up before the Winchester
magistrates rem Saturday, and stated his name to be William
l'autplin. The third officer of the Great Western was pre-
sent at the examination, and identified the box as one
bremelit home by that ship The prisoner was remanded
until Friday next. From the situation of the box when it
was found It is believed that it was not thrown there from
the waggon, but must have been deliberately placed there.
Winchester is the second station from Southampton and it
is quite dark when the luggage train arrives there.
a hie rubbery will, there is no doubt, lead to an import-
ant alteration en the mode of conveying. gold mid silver to
and from Southampton. At present et is convey, el from
southamptun in the night by slow trains, each of which is
oftentimes a mile long, which are without any effectual
guard, and the covering of the waggons can be cut Opell
with a penknife. Up to one o'clock yesterday afternoon no
discovery of the two bore! containing gold duet, worth
LOW., was tirade at Winchester. The whole of the inarain
eif the South Western Railway, between Southampton and
London has been carefully *combed.
As soon as the discovery of the box by the cow-boy was
made, the fact was communicated to London by telegraph,
and Inapt:aim Field, the most accomplished detective police
officer in the kingdom, left the metropolis for Winchester.
Just as he arrived there, Paruplin was brought into the
railway station, and charged with being concerned in the
robbery. The prisoner was not known to the police. Ili.
'tura is that he es a tailor by made, and that having quar-
relled with his wife he left London for the country in search
of work. Ili. being found where he was was owing to his
having missed his way while proceeding to the Jolly Fanner
for refreshment.

KEN4INGTON GARDEN/J.—We have been requested
to give insertion to the following:—The committee ap-
pointed by the inhabitants of liciednetor, Paddington,
Notting-bill, and Bayswater, to obtain petitions and
memorials against the formation of the proposed ride
in Kensingtou-gardens, request the attention of the
public to the following brief statement :—lictisington-
gardens include an urea of above 3.30 acres, and have

lung been open to the public by the gracious per-
mission of her Majesty and her royal predecessors. The
gardens form the moot extensive and delightful pleasure
grounds of the same rural description attached to any city in
Europe. Under the present regulations they are resorted to
with a degree of security from molestation which ladies and
children can nowhere else enjoy, not even in the neighbour-
ing parks. The gardens are not only a source of health and
gratification to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, but to
visitors, especially to invalids from all parts of the metro-
polis. The proposed ride commencing at Kensington Int-
-1 deeka, near the south-west corner of the gardens, and pro-
emaling first in an easterly, and then in a northerly direetiva,
•in as Bayswater, will throw nearly the whole area open
',equestrians, will supersede all the judicious regulations
osier which admission is now granted, and will destroy, in
measure, the secluded rural aspect which now con-
eYptMs most attractive characteristic of these delightful
veranda. The reason assigned for thus defacing one of the
met nessired features of the chief city in this great empire,
les that equestrians not enjoying, this year, the full adran-
Inge of their usual ride in Rotten row, are entitled to com-
putation ; and that the most convenient compensation is at
expense of the pedestrians in this royal domain. In
~ewer to this plea, it may be fairly urged that the ride in
Hatten-row is now frequented by equestrians as in former
seasons; and that the necessity of a new ride for their ac-
commodation is not yet apparent. That the pedestrians in
the gardens are as much entitled to consideration as the
equestrians in Hyde-park. That even a partial and tempo-
rary interference with the ride in Rotten-row is no adequate
reason fur the desecration of Kensington-garden. That the

THE FATAL COLLISION ON THE CHESHIRE
JUNCTION RAILWAY.

The inquest proceeded after our report left Pres-
ton Brook on Friday last, and Mr. Gibson, the secretary to
the company, underwent a lung examination respecting the
manner in which Vie detaihi of the management of the line
were conducted. Edward Mayfield, a fireman on one of
the engines involved in the collision, and John Doyle, a
guard, were else examined, but their evidence diecloeed no
new tact,

Oa Saturday the examination of witnesses was resumed,
and

Alderman Bancroft, chairman of the howl of directors,
suits d that he presided at all meetings of the board. On the
19th April, verbal indructious were given to Mr. Bragge,
the engineer, to provide the requisite rolling stuck Mr the
Chester race week; a rough estimate was made, but no
limit was filed: no minutes were made, but the instructions
were specific as to his paw wring the accommodation from
various companies then named. In regard to the departure
of trains, it was determined to adhere to the arrangements

of precious years as to the Chester ;14 Birkenhead line
but the Cheshire Junction being a new line, an estimate was
made on the neat meeting, the 26th of April, as to the
traffic ou that line during the races. It was considered that
it would nut be very Large, owing to the competition of the
London and North Western Company ria Crewe, issuing
tickets privileging parties to return any day during the
week. It was also taken into account that the East
Lineashire and Lancashire and Yorkshire companies
were competing fur the traffic from the same die-
triet, bearing to mind that there were no terminal
duties to perform at Chester, Manchester, or War-
rington. Tr, secretary submitted, and the board agreed,
that the ordinary staff would be sufficient; witness be-
lieves that Mr. Bragge's estimate of the locomotive power of
toe company was correct, and considered that it was amply
sullicis nt ; the company had no engineer for the line lee-
tween Chester and Winton, on the 30th of April, except fur
the rolling stock; the engagement of Mr. Listor had ter-
minated. Ile was engineer for the construction of the line
only; but having made an offer fur the construction of some
stilt unhnished works, the board agreed on the 19th that if
witness met him London, he might engage him on such
terms as he thought flt. Witness did nut see him, however,
until Wednesday last.
In answer to Captain Laffan, Mr. Bancroft said that the
parties responsible for the safe working of the line from
Chester to \Vahan were Mr. Bragge, and Mr. Allison; the
secretary's department and the goods department were su-
perintended by Mr. Roberts; and the secretary, under the
direction of the board, was considered responsible for the
direction of all trains, and for the general control over the
officers; it being clearly understood that any matters not of
a routine character, should be brought wider the notice of
the board or of the executive committee ; the board is re-
sponsible for the working of the line between Chester and
Walton; the impression of the executive committee was
that in marshalling the trains from Chester a sufficient in-
terval would necessarily thk,6l: to enable them safely to pass
clear of each other throughout the journey, and it did not
at all occur that there would be any accident or delay. The
race traffic was worked last year over 13 miles; this year
over 63 miles.
The proceedings were adjourned to Monday.

THE EXPERIMENTAL TRIP WITH THE DRUID.
It will be recollected that the experimental trip with the
Druid engine, proposed by Cupt. Lathan, C.E., government
iuspectur, was fixed tor Saturday morning. The object of
the experiment was to test the power of this engine to
draw an equal load to that attached, to it from Chester and
stopping at Frodsham on the night of the fatal catastrophe
in the tunnel, when it drew the first train and blocked up
the passage of the succeeding train through the tunnel, by
becoming stationary. The value of the experiment would
be, that if successful in drawing the load with dry rail. it
might be held that the fall of rain or sleet which rendered the
rails slippery on the 30th April was to some extent an unfore-
seen cans of the collision. The weight to be attached to the
train, and the description of train, were determined by the
evidence of Mr. Brugge, the company's engineer, as to the
train attached to the same engine on the 39th April,
namely, S stand up, 6 covered second and third class,
and 2 first class carriages, making a total of 10. They
were loaded with iron chairs and rails to the supposed weight
of the passengers, 70 tons. making the total weight of train
132 tuns 14 ewta. The weather on Saturday morning was
extremely dry and favourable, but there was a strong wind
blowing on the viaduct at an angle of 43 degrees against the
side of the train. The following are the results, the en-
gine working, at a pressure of 7111bs. to the square inch
and the train starting heavily and accomplishing the Mat
100 yards Mabout one minute, and 500 yards in 31 minutes.
Time.
h. m. s.
Started from Frodsham 8 53 U
Entered tunnel
Emerged from tunnel
Benched Moore Station 9 13 0
It will thus be seen that the train was occupied
Distance. Time.
Miles. min. see.
In going to the tunnel lO 30
lu going through the tunnel
, In going from tunnel to Moore 2 5 33

2 0 0

The total time of performing the trip of 5 miles was,
thervfore, 20 minutes, giving au average speed of 1•i toilet
an hour.

Six ut the jury and the coroner, and Captain Llffan were
pieselit, and su far the experiment appeared highly satis-
factory. At the conclusion of the subsequent proceedings of
the inquest, however,
Captain Latfan rose and stated to the coroner and jury
that the experiment had not been satisfactory o his own
mind, and he wished to have the engine further tested.
'lite Coroner—Witt you state the grounds for it, Captain
Lath.. ? _ _ _

Captain Lilian: Because the load of the train this morn-
ing was to hate been 70 tons, and un going back to examine
it 1 found a deficiency of 22 tons.
Mr. Brogue, the company's engineer, thought Captain
Lattlin had fixed the weight of passengers tuts high in ave-
raging them at 12 stone each.
Captain Laffau—The weight had been fixed by Mr.
Braggc himself in his evidence, and some of the passengers
would be only stone, but others would be 14 to 10. There
were .1:16 passengers, and that would give a total set 70 tuns.
The weight in the train this morning was only 48 tom. lie
had left the weighing in the first instance to the company's
servants. He was prepared to have made some modification,
but not to expect a difference of 22 tour.
Ultimately it M. agreed to have another trial, but the
time was nut definitively fixed.

HARWICH ELECTION COMMIT-TEL—On Saturday
the committee continued their scrutiny, the vote objected
to being that of Mr. John Attwoud, in respect of an estate
situate at Doverscourt, near Harwich, Mr. James,
contended that the vote was a hail rote, and ought nut to
have been polled. Mr. Attwood had been in possession of
the house for upwards of three years, had never slept in it,
had kept it in an unfurnished state, with only an old man to
look after it. Mr. Attwood had visited Harwich only twice
in the three years, once during the period of his own elec-
tion in 1847, when he was unseated by a committee of the
--" .

House of Commons, and again in March last, during Mr.
Prinsep's election, at neither of which periods did he sleep Cr
stay at his own residence, but in the first place at the Three
Cups Hotel, and on the second at the house of Mr. Head-
tine, one of his partisans. Mr. Attwood's vote had has
struck off as a had vote in 1848, 1849, and 1850, sad pm
1851 the anomaly of its being reinstated on the regime Or
cuffed. Mr. Attwood had an agent at Harwich nomad
Alfred Haste, a retired tailor or draper, and to this individual
the churchwardens, in contravention of the act of pull&
ment, entrusted the preparation of the list of voters ; and,
in pursuance of this pm liege, he took the opportunity oil
placing on the list every tenant of Mr. Attwood, whether
the vote was good or had thus entailing great expense on
the objectors. Mr. Pownall, solicitor, of Harwich, gave
evidence in confirmation of these facts, together with
Joseph Smith, Mr. Attwood's gardener. The latter
admitted that, prior to Mr. Prinsep's election, he
had come to an arrangement with Mr. Attwood
to rent the lodge and • little bit of garden, and
live there instead of in the mansion. Mr. James :
8o that, horticulturally speaking, you were trans.
planted by Mr. Attwood in order to grow up into a vote.
(Loud laughter.) Witness : Yes, 1 were."—The room
was cleared, and on re-admission the committee intimated
their decision that the vote of Mr. Attwood was a bad vote.
The vote of Edward Chapman, objected to on the ground of
paid agency, he having received election fees as town-clerk,
and of Charles Sparrow, on the ground of non-occupation
of a house of insufficient value, were decided by the com-
mittee to be good votes.—Mr. Serjeant Kinglake
then, under 11 and 12 Tic. e. 98, applied to the committee
for costa, as against the other side, on the ground that the
last'- -• frivolous and unfounded. The

IRELAND.

DUILIN, MAT 10.
The quid menu of Ireland have been most provo-
i kingly puzzled by the conflicting accounts of the
fate of Mr. rtluhart's motion which have been
brought by the electric telegraph. According to the
message trout its correspondent, which the .F/ve-
: »iun's Journal publishes, the majority was in favour
of the government —a circumstance attributed,
among other causes, to the " absence and treachery
of sonic Irish members "—while the account received
at the office of Messrs. Smith and Son, represents
the fact as precisely the contrary. The Tablet and
some other papers have adopted the latter version,
and boast of the " glorious triumph ," but the cir-
cumstantial announcement made in the i'reenton
leaves little room for doubt in the matter, and is more
generally received.
Mr. Leopold Keane, son of Sir Richard Keane, of
Cappoquin House, had a narrow escape from being
murdered on Wednesday night last The circum-
stance is thus described by a correspondent of the
Ereniny
Mr. and Mrs. Keane had dined with Major Alcoek, of
Richmond, near Cappoquin, and were returning home in
an outside car, about ten o'clock, when a shot was fired at
them from behind a wall. Providentially they escaped un-
hurt. The coachman distinctly saw the tt.o,h and heard the
whizzing of the bullet. The horse was fresh, and trotting
very fast at the time, which may account for the assassin's
missing his aim. Tha police were speedily on tho spot, but
no trace of the person who fired the shot could be dis-
covered. This horrible outrage took place within 100 yards
of the town of Cappoquin, and had any life lo:crk lost, it
must have been that of Mrs. Keane, us she wa, bitting St
the side from whence the shot hail been fired.

The magistrates of the district were to assemble
to-day for the purpose of taking steps to discover the
perpetrators of the outrage. In Westmeath a man
named Cullen has been committed on suspicion for
being engaged in the attempt to murder Mr. Billing,
and in the same county a person named Daly has
been arrested, charged with being implicated in the
murder of Mr. North.

On the subject of the Ribbonism which is known
to prevail in the county of Down, and in some other
parts of the north, the Newry Examiner, a liberal
Paper, saga:
Lord Clarendon can have but little idea of the nature of
the ltibbm system, wlUel. is at the bottom of every agrarian
murder, it he thinks to check its progress by other than the
most vigorous means. The better order of tenant farmers
live in hourly dread of the ven4.eance of ruffians who hase
confederated to set this law at nought. The Ribbon lodge
rules paramount iu every parish—the industrious man is
intimidated—and hundreds are compelled to enrol them-
selves amongst its members to save themselves from
outrage.

The Nation of this day publishes a letter from
Mr. W. Smith O'Brien, being the first public
epistle written by hint since his transportation. It
is dated " New Norfolk, Van I hemen's Land, Jan. 4,"
and is almost wholly occupied with a statement of
the circumstances under which Messrs. M'Mnnus,

()Doherty, and O'Donohue were removed to proba-
tionary settlements for having broken the conditions
of their tickets of leave. In conclusion he says :

Respecting myself I have little to say. You have of
course heard an account, probably much misrepresented, of
my unsuccessful attempt to escape from Maria Island, and
of my subsequent imprisonment at Port .trthur. Though
I received an official notification, spontaneously sent by the
governor, by which I was inthrmed "that he was nut dis-
posed to take any special notice of my recent attempt to (l-
eapt," but that ill made a second attempt I should be treated
as an ordinary convict working in gang, I was subjected, dur-
ing 12 weeks, to solitary confinement of so rigorous a kind that
even the doctor of the station and the clergyman, who are
specially appointed and paid for the purpose of attending to
the bodily and mental welfare of the prisoners, were forbid& oi
to visit me. The clergyman of the station assured me, after my
release, that he had been most anxious to have visited me,
but that ho was not permitted by the authorities to do what
he felt to be his duty on the occasion. Fortunately my
health did not fail, though 1 was much depressed in mind,
in consequence of finding that my attempt to escape had led
to results very injurious to others—if not to myself, amongst
which I may mention the loss of his situation to Mr. Lap-
halo, the superintendent, from whom I bad experienced
much kindness whilst under his charge at Maria Island.
At length, to my great surprise, I received an address,
signed by many hundred persons resident in this colony,
by which I was urgently entreated to accept is ticket
at kayo on the terms offered by the government. As
such also was the earnest wish of my friends at home,
and as I had abandoned all idea of escaping, I thought
that I should subject myself to deserved charges of
'villainess and of wayward obstinacy, if I were to resist
any longer what appeared to be the universal desire of
my friends ; but I set no value whatever upon the
sort of liberty which I now enjoy, and would return to my
cell to-morrow without feeling that I had made any sacrifice
in surrendering the boasted indulgences which are paraded
to the world as illustrative of British clemency and magna-
nimity. Whilst separated from my family and from my
country, and whilst subject to the malicious caprice of
such men ea Dr. Hampton (Comptroller-tieneral of Con-
victs), and Sir William Denison, it i a matter of indifference
to me whether I am imprisoned within the confines of
rural distrietor of a walled iuclosure. I do not like to close this
letter without saying something respec tin& our belovi d coun-
try, but so many thoughts and feelings claim expression from
my pen when it begins to trace the name of Ireland, that I
cannot now venture to allow it to touch this topic except for
the purpose of assuring you that my attachment to my
native land continues unaltered and ualterable.—Believe
me, my dear Duffy, most sincerely yours,
\\ritual( S. O'Bltitis.

CUMBERLAND BENEVOLENT INaTITUTION.—The
103rd annual dinner of the members and friends of this
society was held at the London Tavern on Saturday even-
ing, the Right Hon. Sir James G. H. Graham, M.P., in the
chair. After the customary toasts, the chairman proposed
"The health of Lord Lansdale," the lord lieutenant of the
county of Cumberland, stating that it was principally to the
noble lonr, father, of whom he was the worthy sun, that
the institution had been changed from a political society
to One whose sacred cause was that of charity. This toast
was followed by " The health of the members our the eastern
division of the county of Cumberland, the members for the
western division, the members for Carlisle, the members
for Cockennouth, and the members for Whitehaven."—Mr.
11ildyard then proposed, in a brief but highly complimen-
tary speech, " The health of the Chairman,' which was
received in a must enthusiastic manner.—The right hon.
baronet in returning thanks observed, that he had often
been placed in trying situations, and under circumstances
of great difficulty. lie knew that he was mortal and liable
to error • and that, therefore, in the course of his public

life, he had probably had sins to answer for;
still' he hoped he could truly say, that throughout
his life he had endeavoured so to conduct himself
whether in public or in private, that the proud county of
Cumberland should never have occasion to be ashamed of
him, and that when he was gone they might be able to say
of him, " Here, upon the whole, was an honest man, who in
his life did his best to serve his country." But he gladly
turned from himself to propose " Prosperity and l'erma-
nence to this Institution." The county of Cumberland was
not a rich county, but still it possessed the great elements
of permanent prosperity. In it there was superior educa-
tion, a firm attachment to home, a strong recollection, even
at a distance, of the scene of the childhood, and a manly
reliance upon their own exertion+, which never deserted
Cumberland men in any situations in life in which the,
might be placed. lie believed that even in this great sow
peril= of commerce, in the city of London itself, there we,.
• large number of men who were remarkable for their W.
dustry, their integrity, their exertions, and, he was glad to
say, their general success, who owned the county of Com.
berland as their birth place. In the present stags
of society they were all, however, liable to revelmill
of fortune; but Cumberland men never had forgotten.
and never would forget to show kindness and considers+
tion to those of their countrymen who had fall=
into distress. Indeed, if they could be guilty of
such forgetfulness they would be utterly undeserving of
every thing which they themselves enjoyed. The society
now .naintained forty-three persons whose character was
unexceptionable, but whose distress was pitiable; the com-
mittee having lately added four more to the previous num-
ber, rightly judging that though - had no large balance
A their bankers, tb - with

. __ .., they has.
. two objections were _____ __- -- at t
equestrians, mule admitted into the gardens, will lx• sure to room was again cleared, and the committee decided that pathy and the kindness of the men of Cumberland to eon-
of their aimmible. - . and Preeure erermenent, instead the objections taken were quite fair ones, and then ad- tribute the extra sum required. The right hoar. hart. added
of a tense MIST IN that purpose. slat, in proportion six to ococ t is ay. wo To so y .as . t rtum which all were
quite
T te nl • out of the a proof of the liabili yto misfo •to
as buil Iwo laud on all sides in the suburban required to seat Mr. Crawford having as yet been este subject, that one of the pensioners of the institution had
parishes, bewidllsl mu in urbe must become more pre- blish.
sous to 'the inhalthsats of the metropolis, and ought to be at one time been in practice as a respectable solicitor, and
parson who by his industry,
more resolutely protected and handed down unimpaired to FURTHER CALLS TO THE BAR.—A further call to
had given the first brief to a
his talents, and his exertions hadPe risen to be the Lord Highy'
future generations. the bar of students of the Honourable Society of the Middle
Chancellor. Such was the happy constitution of society in
THE ENCROACHMENT ON KENSINGTON-GARDENS. Temple was made on Saturday evening last, and comprises
E.q.. Enlen.d—on the one hand they were jsowerfully protecting
—At the meeting of the Marylebone yestry, held on Smut- the aftermentioned gentlemen .—John Raymond.
d J hby their voluntary generosity, the unfortunate; and on the
day, it was resolved to appoint a deputation to wait upon w
Thomas Geary, Esq., Joseph ihipton, Esq., an osep
other hand, they beheld integrity and talent rising to an
Fail.
Lord John Russell, and endeavour to avert the serious I "'ere, .
High Sheriff of Cumberland—Prosperity to the county eminence next even to the throes itself. The health of the
misfortune threatened to the public by the introduction of YORKSIIIE AGRICULTUVAL BANK.—The adjourned
• carriage drive into Kensington-gardens. The subject, it , meeting of the shareholders in the Yorkshire Agneultural of Cumberland, and the gentlemen residing therein—
was stated, will be brought before the House of Commons , Bank, was held on Thursday, at the Merchants' Hall, Foss- —prosperity to our countrymen who are residing else-
this evening by Mr. Hume. I . Mr. Blanabard, the chairman, presided. The proceed- where—The ladies and the bonnie lasses of Cumberland—Mr.
KEE' GARDENS.—The increased accommodation of 1 = were of a moat turbulent character, the first two hours Dixon and the Vice Presidents—Mr. Reay, the Treasurer—
ire public in these gardens, which we announced as being having been spent in discussing the report, the amendment the Committee and the Committee Elect—the Stewards—Dr.
hi loutemplation, wi'J be carried into effect from to-day, in against its reception being at length adopted. Ultimately Francis Sibson and the medical offisers—the Stewards
llllllMaisace with the following official notice : "By the a station to the following effect was earned : That on the Elect, and other toasts, were also proposed, and received
mnolons permission of her Majesty the royal pleasant trustees Paying to the shareholders a further dividend of with the heartiest demonstrations of good will. In tke
catemds at Kew will be opened to the public on ever day 2s. ed. a share, and taking the remaining responsibilities of course of the evening the chairman proposed the Press, ve.
in the work, between the hours of one and air, from 'Mon- the bank upon themselves, they be authorised to divide the marking that there was once a gentleman who attritiv.ted
day, the 12th of May, to Friday, the 12th of September,
surplus of money in hand or yet to be received, among all his acquirements in reading, arithmetic, and every other
during t e present Tear. The access to these grounds will
them; and that the banking accounts be closed as early as branch of knowledge to a very simple implement--a horse-
be in the Kew and Richmond-road, by the ' Lion and Vol- hie. The chairman announced that the dividend would whip. Now public men were indebted to the prays in like
corn Gates' respectively ; and, on the river aide of the rpaid on the Ist of October next, and then declared the manner for much valuable instruction. It taught
them
grounds. by the gate adjoining to the Brentford-ferry ; the business of the meeting to be concluded. their duty, and if they were inclined to go ormng it gave
entrance gnus to the Botanic Gardens en Kaw-green being FACT TOR THE PROTECTIONISTS.—At the weekly them salutary lessons coupled with condign ebmiiiewent—
open as heretofore. Communications will at the same time meeting of the board of guardians of the Blandfori union, both conveyed not always in the most ay.:lent:de manner.
be opened between the Botanic Gardens and the pleasure held on Saturday last, the clerk reported a decrease in the He believed that no man had been morn chastised by the
grounds, by gates in the wire fence which separates the expenditure of the union for the year 1810, as compared press than himself, and no man had kerleaps ever received
two. It is requested that visitors will abstain from tarrying with the year 1849, of upwards a one thousand pounds, its correction more thankfully or ha,c ever been more in
baskets or refreshments into the grounds ; and smoking mand that a considerable portion -,ji• such decrease appeared favour of its perfect freedom. Suirr.friptions to the amount
1 the Botanic Gardens is not permitted.—By order of the to be owing to the reduced number of recipients, from the of 219/. (or nearly 1001. short of th'. required sum) were
Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods, itc.—Office of reasonable price of provision and other necessaries of life. I announced during the evening. The company did not
Woods, Ate., May 10, 1811.' Western Timm equate CI near midnight.

SPORTING.

LATEST BETTING AT THE WEST END.

T 111; Ult EAf MATCH. V_'-
11 to no the Flt Lar Dutchman (t).
SOO EIthi.T•HIRE 'STAKE..
7 to l apt The B.n it and aft of).
DEUItt .
Bto 1 arrat Flernandea freetj :0 to I sot Throw (of to 0
12 to I Mathorough 11tak 23 to 1 ICureellatton (of to t
In to I The Ban 23 to 1 Heart &taker (t)
20 tr 1 Prune )1u to
0 %KB.
Offen 11 take 4 to I ■hoot Paps•et.

SIIREWSBCRY. RACES.
The disputed race for the Gold Cup has been decided
in favour of Goldttnder.

FIZIDIV.
AI.TtSGIIANt PAIZR (Free /Ismheap) STAKPS of 5 sots.
each, and 25 added; the second to save his stake. T.Y.C.
($ subs.)
Mr. !lawmen's OstsiWestern, 4 yrs, Set Sib (ilastiam)
Mr. Cop:land's s blow, 5 ye-, Cu; Mb ...... .... (C. Sharpe) 2
Mr. Turner's Heart ot Oak, 3 yrs, 94 Blb ........ (Catswcl.)
LOSONER ST.3liri of 10 'Om each, with 50 added, for
2-yr-olds ; colts, Bst Sib; and fillies, Met 21b; winners Llbs
extra ; the second sat Cs his stake. T.Y.C. (7 subs.)
sir C. Ru•bout's I.thrltrolf (lisrltog) I
Mr. T. Lister ad I.AT 10.413e1e (Wlttwbots.e) I
814110P3111113: tiTACP3 (handicap) of 10 WTI. each, .1 IT
if declared, with 50 added ; the second to receive 15 sous
out of the stakes. About a mile and a quarter. (28 subs
13 of whom th dared.)
Sir. rntlilps's Le J at, 3 yrs. Sot 91b
Lard War wiek's thief, 3 yr., 7st 715 (W. Sharpe) 2
Mr. Mars is Pukberrin a. .t yrs, let Sib (C. sitarpe) 3
Il.tw IihTONE CVP of 100 sees., by subs. of 10 6031. each,
the surplus in specie; the winner to be sold fur 600 Fins.,
('up Course, about two miles and a half. (26 subs.)
Mr. Sivittlaas Suosrstsprin, 5 yes. lot tolo ,Carterrygot) •
Mr. Slt ,r.t:'. Fart t, B yrs, hat :lb (A ha, hose.) 2
Mr. 11.154Ilsetos, 4 yrs, Bat 121', (Cloarrltt 3
Ai roN Ilt:ustEr STALES of 5 sous. each, and 25 added,
fur 3-yr olds and upwards; the secunil to save his stake, and
the winner to be mild fur 3001., &e. lleats, one mile and a
quarter. (5 subs.)
Mr. Yowler'. it,s,sr, 3 yrs, 3st Rats „. (Wets) 1 1
Mr. Stand's Eden, 3 yrs, 3st 715 (Kendall)