The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-28 00:00:00

commissioner's salary. He recommended the appointment
of a local committee on the estates as the only mew
of securing a proper management of the company's affairs
The CHAIIMAN *moldered the expenses complained of
puts necessary under the circumstances, and with regard to
the local committee suggested, thought that the course
which had been rropoaed would only cause an increase in
the present expenses without securing any adequate return.
The committee in London had the entire dirction of their
affairs in Canada, and the commissioner took no measures
except under their direction.
Mr. Gota.n moved and Mr. CLARK seconded the adop-
tion of the report, which they oonsidered to be of a highly
satisfactory character, under the circumstances.
The retiring dir-cton and auditor were then re-elected:
and Mr. Christy elected to the vacant seat in the direction,
Mr. White withdrawing his name as a candidate. The pro-
ceedings then terminated, with the usual complimentary
vote to the chairman.

IRELAND.
Dcsuir, Msacei 26.
Notwithstanding the special commission the judges
have had heavy work in Limerick. Never were re-
cord, so few, and rarely the dock so crowded. Seven-
teen days were exhausted in the general gaol delivery;
and the fruit of the laborious session has been—four
sentenced to death, forty to transportation, and a great
crowd to various terms of imprisonment.
The trades of Dublin meet to-day to consider what
steps ought to be taken about a defence fund, as well
as the general policy of their order in these days of
excitement
Emigration presents a very different aspect in the
present and the past year. The poor law Low gives
the peasant a hold on the land, and he does not feel
in such a hurry to depart. One or two vessels are
ready to leave Dublin with cargoes incomplete. One
sailed on Friday from Limerick with a full comple-
ment, and at an average rate of 31. 18s. per head.
There are eighteen vessels entered for passengers in
he port of Limerick.

STILTS or THS COUNTRT.—A brutal murder has been
perpetrated within the last few days in Longford. The vie.-
tim was a man named Donohoe, and was 73 years of age.
He hod sole time since made over his farm to his eon upon
certain terms, to which the latter gave an unwilling assent.
It is said the murder of the old man was perpetrated to free
the son from the engagement. There has been another
dmeute in Tutlamore workhouse—easily suppreased,however.
The occasion of it was an announcement that no further
allowance or rations of bread would be distributed to the
inmates. Several windows were oroken.—Sheep-stealing is
on the increase in Queen's County, although many arrests
of the plunderers take place.
The guardians of the Waterford poor-law union have
been dismissed by the commissioners.

SCOTLAND.
EDINBURGH, /1/41AitcH 27.

An adjourned sessions of the peace, for the county
of Haddington, is to be held on the 4th inst., when
the parliamentary legislation on the game laws is to
considered. At lust meeting, it was moved and
seconded, by Sir G. G. Suttie and Sir D. Baird, that
it is not desirable for justices of the peace to act in
cases of poaching, and that such cases should be
determined by sheriffs; and this resolution will fall
to be disposed of at the above meeting.

COMMISSION BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF AYR-
elllßE.—Ayrshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry: Lord
Fergus Kennedy, to be Carnet, v. W. C. Patrick, promoted.
NORMAL SCHOOL OS' THE EsTAHLISHED CHISRCH.—An
interesting examination of the pupils attending this ea'ablish.
went took place in Glasgow on Wednesday last. The RUC-
cea of the institution appears to have been of a decided cha-
racter. Previous to January, 1847, 37 male students had
entered to be trained as teachers, of whom 4 supported them-
selves; and since that date 16 have been admitted. Some of
these studunts have been trained in the arminary 15, 14, 11,
10, or 9 months; and others from 6 to 3 molars, according
to their degrees of improvement. A very large number of
female students have also been trained. Many of the stu-
dents have been .-.pointed to schools in various parts of the
country. The average number of ordinary pupils in the
different schoula connected with the institution is about 500,
many applicants being rejected, for want of accommodation.
On Wednesday, says the Glasgow Constitutional
The junior deportment. were first examined, including the (cilia-
tory or infant echoed clam, and the results were highly utinfactory as
exemplifying the beneficial effectsof engaging young children in the
perforronnee of lemons combining antumment Nulty with inotruo.
lion and tending to drool ,p 1 without overstraining the faculties of
thetirminds. The examination of the senior department was com-
menced with the sacred history elate, In whkh eery great profi-
ciency we shown by the pupils, the met clear and accurate answers
being in almost every instance given to questions embracing in their
range the whole tenor of ear:mural narrative. The class of reading,
redline, and grammar wan the next examined, and the P 1.10214,0 of the
efforts of the teachers was most strikingly dinplayed in the facility
with which the pupils went through the exercises in parsing
and etymology. Oeography followed next, end the ready and
distinct manner in which every question was answered showed
the pupils to have acquired a well. grounded knowledge of
the leading truths or the science. In the classes of book-keeping and
arithmetic respectively the wine aflciency was displayed, scone very
complex problem. In componnd'Ebrlition and compound proportion,
involving the working of vulgar fraction., being resolved with 'the
greatest ease and rapidity. The not clan in the order of examination
was the catechism clan., in which the pupils acquitted themselves in
as satisfactory a manner an could be desired. At interval. in the
examination of the several clanses, and at the close, a hymn, or some
other sacred piece, wu sung by the pupils in a style which reflected
much credit upon the tuition of Mr. Shield.% the singing ina..te r.
At the close of the day's proceedings several of the gentle-
' men by and in whose presence the examination was con-
' dueled, expressed the impressions made upon them by the
exhibition. The Rev. Dr. Crack said inter alia
The ladies have examined the school of industry, and hoer expressed
themselves highly pleased with the specimen of needlework and
fancy work they hate seen there. But the benefits conferred by the
inetitution ere not confined to the children here; from the number of
teachers trained in this institution, its benefits are extended to the
remotest parte of the country. I can only thy, and I ear it deliberately,
MLA, intimately acquainted as lem with the wholein (destroy, and
other places, there is none of which I can mote truly affirm than of
this normal achool, that it is conducted inn manner to secure the very
best ulueetion, and of the kind most suitable for the children attend-
ing it.
Mr. Paton said
Aa a director, I have bad ample occasion to nee the energy with
which the institution is conducted In all its department., and tualay's
examination hue fully sustained the very high opinion I have formed
of it. But the benefits of the institution extend in directions not yet
referred to. Clergymen from the country, who have achooln in their
own parishes., on visiting the ementary, receive, while noticing the
admirable manner in which the business of instruction is gone
through, hints that are of the utmostbenefit to them on returning.
The Rev. Mr. Stevenson, of Dairy, said :
I am peculiarly happy in having this oppot,unity of returning
thanks to those connected with the Lartituttoe, insomuch on I bans
myself obtained teachers from it, who are now actively employed in
my own parish. Other teachers are sent trom the institution to other
parts of the country, who thus form the ramifications of a soya eau
worm of inetructiun, extending Its blessings over the country, and
originating in the institution here an at head-quartern. I rejoice ex-
ceedingly in testifying to the admirable appearance presentul by the
children. lost summer I visited the schools in America ; and while
I was there, I raid to the children in the schools that on returning to
my own country, I would endeavour to excite a spirit of emulation
among the children of our schools in ticotland, that our lemons should
be better said than theirs.
In these sentiments the other speaker* entirely concurred.

PROVINCIAL.
LANCASHIRE.
TIIE NeMBER OE IRISH VAGRANTS AND ISIPOSTORS
whe infest this county has for some time put been a source
of serious complaint on the part of rate-payers. Doncaster
is one of the towns in which the infliction has been severe. A
recent number of the local paper, the Gazette, says : " Hordes
of Irish beggars have of late infested this town, seeking gut,
by means best known to themselves, those parties who are
well known as the 'charitable and humane, and whose
sympathies are calculated to be most easily aroused by a tale
of distress. These impostors—for they are in fact nothing
less, and in many instances something more—take up their
residence in certain lodging-houses in the purlieus of the
Rookery, and there concoct their schemes for practising on
the unwary. It is calculated that some of the lodging houses
in that part of the town cost the parish no less than from 201.
to 401. each, by harbouring beggars, thieves, and vagabonds;
hut it is a matter of congratulation that the bill rec. ntly in-
troduced in the House of Commons by Lord Alorpeth con-
tains clauses which will require such places to be licensed
by magistrates, and placed under proper surveillance. This,
it is hoped, will lessen, it not entirely prevent the evils now
so general, and so productive of every boil tendency. As
illustrations of the above remarks we would refer to some
cases which have lately been brought before the borough
magistrates in this town. Some time durinz the last week
some Irish children were taken before the bench, on • charge
of begging at people's 'louses. They had stated that their
father was dead, and that they did not know where their
mother was. When questioned by the magistrates it came
out that they were lodging at the house of James Finan, a
well known house of entertainment for the reception of such
characters. linen's wife was sent for, and the children were
placed under her care, with strict orders that they should not
be allowed to go out again on a similar errand. Notwith-
standing this, and the woman's promise that they should
not be allowed to leave the house, on Sunday four children—
the same as before—were found begging in the streets when
people were leaving. the churches and chapels. It was then
discovered that their father and mother were both living,
and were lodging with them at Finan's, and that conse-
quently the story they had told previously was entirely false."
—Vagrancy is also much complained of in Lincolnshire. At
the meeting of the guardians of the Boston Union on Satur-
day, the following report appeared in the master's journal,
and was ordered to be forwarded to the poor-law board:—
" I beg to call the- attention of the board to the increase of
vagrancy. The following statement for the past two years
will show that it is not increasing gradually or at is moderate
rate, but most rapidly and to a frightful extent :—For the
quarter ending March, 1846, there were admitted 311 ; in
the June quarter, 283; in the September quarter, 165; and in
the December quarter, 303: total, 1,062. For the corre-
sponding periods of 1847, there were admitted in March
quarter, 37j; in June quarter, 470 ; in September quarter,
40d ; and in December quarter, 623: total, 1873: being an
increase of more than 800 on the previous year. Fur the
past eight weeks of the present quarter there have been 546.
showing the number to ne still on the increase. I rural, be-
lieve that the professed vagrants (I mean those who will not
work maims compelled to do so) now make the vagrant
lodges of union houses their regular lodgings whether they
have the means of paying for their lodgings elsewhere or not.
I have known instances of vagrants leaving their motcy in
the town, so that if they were searched they should be found