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London, England, 1846-10-12 00:00:00

7,617,4331/4421,921j
4:2,201 1,319,031
6,260,309, 19,834,1481

12,411,5181
29,2621
182,3541

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101,301

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7,639,9971
613,0771

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9,733,790
32,909
436,473

10,243,1721

4,323,7241

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111,6071

13,196,7:

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91,301

14,110,7471
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4.631.1

14,550,441

421,5581

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867,1101

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iDed Deer.

Increase
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39 548

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273,999

80,3-91.147

180. ',MATED FUND, in the QVAILTEIL, ended Oct. 10,104.5, and 1846.

I 839,338
I Ded. Decr.
Increase
I = Quarter

INCOME. 1845. 1 1848. CHARGE. 1845. 1646.
Customs
Kirin
Stamps 1,780,175 1,774,354 Intension Exchapate 11111 a hoard to mot Chow on Omdlittod Tad 254
Taxes
703,118
Property Tax 1,813,883 1,972,128 The Civil List
Pura Mix - 999,000 217,000 Other Charges on the Consehdated fluid 363,882 460,933
Crown Lands
Miscellaneous 13,102 187,910 Total Charge
Produce of Money Toodola tuna Chin
Imprest and other Mama 24,591 33,815
Repayments of Advances 473,481 13,821,874 14,360,447
199'882 Amount of Exchequer Bills issued In meet Chargeon Dessauudatedp,,,,d,
13,621,074 14,360,447 for the Quarter ended July 3, 1840, and paid off out of the growing 2..9344
To Cash brought to this Account to be applied le pay dr Deficiency Bill
£13,821,674 £14,360,447 ducting £370,000 paid off out of the Sinking Fund
Amount ev.ued in the Quarter ended Oct. 10,1846, in part of the Sums i 6,260,306
•, granted be Parliament out of Conrolidated Fund fur Supply Serrices f
1 Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended Oct. 10, 1846 I 3,762,370 498,138
I
Prnbabk Amount of Exchequer Bills required to meet the charge on the 1
Corerderbded Fund. Quartet ended Oct. 10, 1940 . . i 727,482

NAVAL COURT-MARTIAL_

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 10.—A court-martial assembled
this morning on board her Majesty's ship Victory, in Ports-
mouth harbour, to try Lieut. Henry Alexander Story, senior
lieutenant of H.M. steam-frigate, Retribution, for having,
on the 13th of August last confined one of the crew of that
ship in the coal-bunker, without having an order for so doing
from his captain, the man having died while so confined.
The court was crowded with officers. _ . _ .

have caused him to be severely punished if reported to
me.—By the prisoner : When you heard of my having put ,
men into the bunkers for offences which, had I reparted
them to you, would in all probability have ensured their
being flogged, did you disapprove of my conduct in so doing?
No, I did not.—Did you think the system pursued by me
tended to decrease the amount of corporal punishment ?
Very much. Did you sanction my use of the black list with-
out ref rence to you ?—I did. Ilan any complaint ever been
made to you by the men since I joined the ship of my having
confined them in the bunker, or for having abused the
authority vested us me by you ?—No complaint his ever been
made to me whatever. Will you have the goodness to state
I whether my conduct as firs'-lieutenant has given you general
satisfaction ?—bloat certainly. llow long have you known me?
—Since you joined my ship as a midshipman, in 1528.
Since that period have you ever heard any thing against my
character, more especially as regards violence and inhu-
manity?—Never in my life. On the contrary, I have al-
ways heard you spoken of as a kind hi arted and humane
man ; and since you have been first-lieutenant of the Beth-
bution, I most gladly bear testimony to the truth which 1
had previously heard.
Lieut. Bickford, seeing-lieutenant of the Retribution, I
being sworn, said the usual punishment was watering the
grog, and occasionally the first watch, without appealing to
the captain.
By the Prisoner—What is the ordinary punishment for
such an offence as that committed by Rtelpath ?—lis ships'
that I have served in, a petty officer would have been di*.
rated, and a seaman punished with corporal punishment.
—This witness bore testimony also to the lenient aad humane
conduct of Lieut. Story.
This closed the case for the prosecution.
In his defence, Lieut. Story said that he was actuated by
the best motives in ordering the man into the coal-bunker ;
as, had he reported him to the captain, his offence would
have exposed him to a much more severe punishment. No
person had felt more regret at the death of the man than
himself. lie then called a number of witnesses, both officers,
petty officers, seamen, and marines, belonging to the Rs tri-
bution, who all bore testimony to his human'ty, and his
uniformly kind treatment of the ship's company.
The court was then cleared to consider the sentence, and
after an hour bad elapsed, they found that Lieut. Story had
been guilty of punishing the man without first reporting
him to the captain ; but, in consequence of its being cus-
tomary for first-lieutenants in that and other ships to place
men in the coal-bunkers for punishment, without so report-
ing them, the court fully acquitted Lieut. Story of any blame
connected with the death of the deceased.

Before the proceedings commenced, Lieut. Story objected
to Rear-admiral Parker, and Captains Pasco and Chads,
sitting as members of the court, they basing previously con-
ducted an inquiry into the eireumatances of the case, by
order of the Admiralty, and the present court-martial being
ordered on their report. The court was cleared, and the
validity of the objection allowed. The three officers referred
to then rose and withdrew. The court was composed as
follows : Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, president ; Commodore
Sir Francis Collier, Captains Elliott, of the Euridiee ; Shep-
herd, of the St. Vincent; Williams, of the Avenger ;" and
Stanley, of the Rattlesnake.
Samuel Arnold sworn—lie was doing duty as master-at-
arms the 13th day of August last, on board the Retribution.
H. A. Story was then hrst-lieutenant of that ship, and E.
Redpath was captain of the hold. About 10 o'clock on the
morning of the 13th of August last he received an order from
Lieut. Story to place E. Redpath on the platform .n the coal-
hole. He was to be visited and reported to the officer of the
watch every hour, and let out to have a wash and get an air-
ing between one and two, pm. Having received this order,
Edward Redpath was accordingly placed on the platform,
under the grating in the coal-bunker, on the port side, about
half-past ten o'clock, a.m. I again saw him about one
o'clock, p.m, when he came out of the coal-bunker. He was
then in the head and he then appeared to be very well in
health. I next saw him about half-past seven p.m., he was
then sitting on the platform. I observed him then through
the grating as I was going aft. I did not see him again
until he was taken out of the coal-bunker dead. I went
immediately for the surgeon. Edward Redpath was sober
when I placed him in the coal-bunker, and to the beat
of my knowledge he continued so while there. He was
put there for being drunk on the night of the 12th
August. The ship was, at the time, on her way
from Gibraltar to Corfu. I have not been more
than five months in the Retribution, I have known two
cases beside the one in que.tion of persons haviug been
put in the coal-bunker for punishment. The man could not
have fallen from the platform on the coals where. he was
found, as it was a distance of some feet. I never heard
it hinted by
.any person that it might be dangerous to
place a man in the coal-bunker. Redpath did not com-
plain to me of his punishment, or make any remarks
thereon; he merely said to me that he was afraid that he
would be disrated. In answer to Captain Williams,
witness stated Redpath was to have been taken
out at eight o'clock that night.—By the President:
Did you ever put a man in the coal-bunker before ?
Yes.—Was that considered a dangerous place ?—Not to my
knowledge.—By the prisoner: Do you consider that Red-
path was a sober man —Deeidedly not. —Was the amount
of punishment less in the Retribution than in other ships ?
—Much less.—Has my conduct been harsh in using the
black list ?—No, never. You have always shown a great
inclination to avoid reporting men to the captain, in order
to avoid a greater amount of punishment.
John Matthews, ship's corporal, deposed that the man
seas put into the coal-hole between ten and eleven. a.m.
Witness gave him his dinner at twelve o'clock, and did not
again see him until seven, when he visited him. He was then
sitting on the platform. Witness asked him if he was all
rights; he replied " Yea, yea," When witness visited him
ut eight o'clock the man was not in the same place ; he gut
a light and took the bunker lid off and looked in, and called
out to him. Witness then went down to the after stoke-bole,
and asked Thomas Rumley, the stoker, if he had seen him :
he replied, no. Wanes. asked Itennhy to go into the bunker
and look for him. Rumley went in and called to witness
" We had better fetch him up, for I think it is no .rly a case
with him." Witness reported it, and they then got a rope
and put down, and hoisted him on deck. It is not customary
to confine men in the bunker; witness had knewn three cases
in the Retribution, but he never knew any bad effects result
from it before this. Never thought it was dangerous.—
By the President : If it had been a cold winter's night,
which would you have considered the must lenient punish-
ment—to be put to look out on the weather-gangway, or
confined in the coal-bunker ?--Witns%s : I would sooner be
confined in the coal-hunker.
By the Prisoner : Had you orders to report the man to the
officer of the watch every hour ?—I had not; I only made
my reports at eight o'clock.—Prisoner : Has my conduct to
the ship's company generally been harsh or violent ?—No.
Thomas Rurnley, leading stoker, deposed to finding the
man in the coal-bunker in a state of insensibility, and corro-
borated the statements of the last witness. Witness was not
aware of any danger from confinement in the coal-bunker;
but said the candle burnt very dimly when they went in to
take him out.—By the President : Did you feel any ill
effects from being in the coal-bunker yourself ?—1 did; and
have also felt ill when in the bunker before.
By Capt. Williams : How long have you worked in a coal-
bunker at one period ?—Four boars. I felt ill at times
when I worked there that time. I felt pains in the head
and across the eyes. When the coals will not run out in the
stoke hole it is usual to go in the bunker to trim them ; that
happens every ten days when the steam is up. In hot
climates I have found ill effects when taking coals in.
Where the coals are dry, it causes a stilling effect. I have
been eight years and a half in steamers. I have frequently
known men put into coal-bunkers for punishment in all
steamers that I have been in. It is a customary punish-
ment, and I do not consider it a harsh method of punishing.
By the prisoner: Were there not stokers in the same
bunker that day trimming coals? Yes, all that day.—Has
my conduct generally towards the ship's company of the
Retribution been harsh ?—No! I think Lieut. Story has
been very lenient, according to the crimes which have been
committed.

IMPORTATION OF Ftsn.—A ship jUist arrived from
Labrador has brought 111 hogsheads, 184 tierces, and 10
barrels of salted salmon, and 100 boxes of the same descrip-
tion of fish in a preserved state, and 832 quintals of cod fish,
and is worthy of mention among the numerous arrivals of
provisions from all parts taking place at the present tune.
GICCU.N I'ARK 111PlilSONMENT.—Sir : Whoever it
is that has the making of the arrangement, for the thoroughfare
through the tireeu Park, does not, in my opinion, show proofs of good
judgment, or of any care for public convenience. On Thursday re en-
ing, October I (and possibly every evening since), about two dozen
children, ladies, and gentlemen, were imprLsoned in the park, from
9 to j past le o'clock at night, much to the inconvenience of many,
and portkularly eo to my friends, who had to travel five miles alter
their liberation. My friends entered the park through the gate
by the Wellington statue, at ten minutes to 9 o'clock, crossing it to
Stafford-house, on their way to Parliament-street. On arriving at
the gate at two or three minutes past nine, they found a number of
peruirts, who, like themselves, had taken that way for the nearest,
collected round the gate, which had been locked whilst many of them
were within speaking distance of it. and were told they must remain
till the guard was changed, when the officer would have a key; that it
was of no use to go elsewhere, as no other gate a ould be opined but
the one close by. Some gentlemen escaped over the high iron rail-
ing'
at the risk of their necks. hut the children, ladies, and gentlemen
with ladies, had to remain till ten, when the officer of the guard
arrived without his key; thus another quarter of an hour was lest.
It was suited that there were hoards to tell people that the gates
would be closed at nine that it WAS no part of the policeman's duty
to inform parties if they reseed the park, that they would be too late
to get out. And so, aU strangers ethoeriter the pork at dusk, and are
r thus not able to read • hat is written on the boards, must find by
experience the danger of entering any park or property under the care
of government authorities. Any tither body of managers would have
bad the sense to give orders that too person should be admitted for
half an hour before closing the gates, which would have given time
for all turtles to arrive at the lodes at which they intended to make
their exit, or the sentinel might have a key entrusted to Inns to let
persons out, for at least ten minutes after the hour. Any plan would
be better than the one now adopted -it could not be worse.—J.A.l.

The Surgeon of the Retribution being sworn said, I was
called upon on the evening of the 13th Augu.t last, to attend
Edward Redpath. 1 found his body on the port side of the
upper deck warm, but I believed dead. Doubtful whether
he was dead or not, I resorted to such means as I thought
fit in suspended animation. I made • post morlem
examination. I found the appearances on the body
such as are known to exist on persons dying from the
effects of respiring carbonic acid gas. I examined the
body very minutely. I found the lungs gorged with blood,
dark in color. The blood about the heart and large vessels,
was of a dark color. The body was generally livid ; in
other respects it was healthy, except rather an unusual
quantity of serum on the brans, and very slight trace of in-
flammation on a portion of the inner coat of the stomach. The
cause of death was the respiration of the carbonic acid gas.
By the President: Is such gas likely to be respired in the
coal-bunker of a steamer ?—Generally not. —Do you consider
there to be any danger in confining a man in a coal-bunker ?
—No.—Do you consider the effects of the coals having born
moved about to produce an unusual quantity of carbonic
acid gas?—lt might do so.—Was the temperature of the
coal-hole very high at the time?—From 76 to 80 degrees.—
Would a high temperature tend to generate an unusual
quantity of carbonic acid gas in the coal-bunker ?-1 believe
that it might disengage carbon from the coati, and so tend to
form carbonic acid gas.—By Capt Williams : Have any of the
stokers been on your sick list from the ill effects of working
in the coal bunker ?—Not to my knowledge.—By Capt.
Shepherd : Had you ever been consulted as to whether the
bunker was injurious to health ? Nu: Were you aware that
deceased was placed in the coal-bunker ? No. By the Presi-
dent : Have you ever requested any precautionary measures
to be taken by the stokers ? No. By the Prisoner: Do you
think it probable that cubonic acid gas could have been
formed where the man was placed on the platform ? No.
Under what circumstances could there have been danger ?
Under existing circumstances, his health being previously
bad, though he had not complained of his health to me. He
was generally a healthy man. Witness stated that Lieut.
Store always rendered him every assistance in his treat-
ment of the sick.
Capt. Lushington, of the Retribution, stated at 8 p.m.,
Lieut. Story reported to me that the man was found very ill.
I knew of other men having been confined in the coal-
bunker: it was not done by my orders. I was not
reported in the log book nor did I enquire into the circum-
stances.—By the Court : Did you consider it a trivial pun-
ishment, which the first lieutenant might adopt ?—The wit-
ness said he did not consider himself bound to answer this
question.—The court was cleared to consider the point, and
on being re-admitked, the question was again put, when the
witness replied, " Certainly not, fur a tripe offence."—Was
it a trivial punishment for this man's offence ?—I consider it
was.—Did you allow the lieutenant on former occasions to
inflict the same punishment without reporting it to you ?
No, I do not approve of the punishment, but did not find
fault.—Did you disapprove of it ?—No, 'did not —Are those
In the black list reported to you?—Not those who are put in
by the lieutenant's orders to avoid reporting them to
me. The crime which the man had committed would

EASTERN COUNTIES.—A RAILWAY WRECK.
On Friday evening, immediately after the depar-
ture of the up fast train, which leaves Cambridge at nine
o'clock, p.m., an enuine, with a train consisting of thirty
five trucks, partially laden with coal and corn sacks, and
par ieny empty, started from the same place, en route for
Stratford. At about half-past nine another train, consisting
of thirty-three carriages laden with wheat and other species
of grain, also started from Cambridge on the up line, and
on its way to London, drawn by engine No. 97, and driven
by a man named I'arker. On the arrival of the truck train
within a mile and a half of Bishop's Suirtford station, and
a few hundred yards of the New-road Brii:ge, the feeding
pipe of the engine became out of order, and rendered it
unable to proceed. The driver and stoker set to work re.
pairing the engine, and about half-peat twelve o'clock,
having completed their object, the train was set in motion ;
hut had scarcely dune so, when the train laden with
grain was heard coming up. l'estal, the guard of the
truck train, with all possible speed ran down the line, and
exhibited the red sign ; but too late to stop the grain
train, at that moment approaching the New-road Bridge at the
rate of twenty miles an hour, on the same line as the truck
train had been standing. Every exertion was used by Par-
ker to prevent the occurrence; but without avail • in an
instant after the collision took place, the engine of the grain-
train dashing with tearful violence into the tail of the truck
train. The crash is described as frightful in the extreme, a
fact to which the appearance of the line bore ample testimony
throughout the whole of yesterday morning. Eight car-
riages of the grain train and eight or nine of the truck train
were smashed to atoms.
. . .

THE ALLEGED POISONINGS AT CLAVERING.—The
adjourned inquest on the body of Solomon Taylor, the illegi-
timate offspring of Lydia Taylor, was resumed before Mr.
Lewis' at the Cock-inn, Maundeit, on Saturday. 1). Wood-
house deposed to seeing the infant's grandmother come out
of Taylor's house crying, and upon his going in he mw the
child foaming at the mouth; it also had its eyes turned up,
and was looking very wild. I said to Mrs. Chesham, " You
are a sorrowful woman to serve that child so ; " when she
replied, •. All I have done has been to give the child a piece
of bread, and I picket it a bough, which it put into its mouth."
John Cowell said he had seen the accused, Mrs. Chesham, in
company with Mr. Thomas Newport. Police-constable
Polly deposed to taking Mrs. Chesham into custody. On her
way to the police-station she asked, "Are you going to take
Mr. Newport as well as me ? " and I replied, • I did not
i know." Mr. Clarke, the superintendent, proved finding
several packages in the accused's house, which have since
been analys4sl by Professor Taylor, who deposed to their
being poisons of a more or leas dangerous ehar.eter. Mr.
Brook, a surgeon of Newport, said he had usista d at the
post-mortem examination. The coats of the stomach were
in an intlaned state, but the appearance of inflammation
ahem after death. Poison administered to a child several
times in small quantities might produce the appearances
he had seen. The inquest was again adjourned for three
weeks _ _

POTATO PLANTING.—Sir: In the present potato
crisis, considering that one plain fact LI worth a score of speculations
in promoting practical maxi, I bag to give you the result of my expe-
rimier in the cultivation of potatoes for the last four years. In a
garden of rather more than half an sere the bulk of me potato crop—
emanating ut A-11-leaf, seismal earliest, anal late redo—has keen pLuited,
in (Huber, -ix )oenu. alt cp, traveled he .table or pig manure, the
earth then drawn over the manure, and a little raised above the ordi-
nary surface ; the produce has .aloe r, exceeded by INIC4111111: that of
the potatoes planted in the spring. the sea-n I/113-41, previou. to
the now prevalent disease, I had alternate rows planted in the same
quarter, in October and April, when tae result was the s-une in quan-
tity as above ; and in the N. ionn% 1045, Isatal, my potatoes have lout
taken up a gonad cram, nearly tree of disease, the exception being
about to c potato in every three mots, and the undid plant genera,ly
near the sari WC. A quarter of my garden adjoining the aartanni-
plantaxl potatoes, in which a spring crop was raised, is much diseased.
Till/1101 a friend to Let, I should he awry to exclude experiment, anal
shall therefore have the portion of ground in which the crop failed
this year planted immediately, In ray usual way, and a kigh..prink-
lino( of not strewed user the manure. -I am, sir, your obedient ser-
vant, JOHN 11,11111,..—WOUtballe, near Darlington, Oct. 9.

The line was completely blocked, and the rails of the up
line torn up for a considerable distance. Oa either side lay
the scattered carriages in a ditch, whilst the engine, No. 91,
lay on the side of the embankment nearest the up line, with
rods waggons on either side completely over it. The line
itself was covered with wheels, springs, and other fragments
of the carriages, and sacks upon sacks of loose grain were
apparently mixed in with the soil. The escape of the engine
driver and stoker of the engine of the grain train was mira-
culous. The stoker was thrown into the field adjoining the
line for a considerable distance, and as the engine turned
over, l'arker, the driver, who had shut off his steam, and was
at the time holding on by the break, turned over with it
down the embankment, and was shortly after got out from
under it, in at first an apparently insensible condition, from
which, however, he speedily rallied, after being extricated
from his perilous situation.—A special engine was
despatched to London for aid, and Mr. Kitson, the
chief of the locomotive department at the Stratford
station, with 200 or :300 labourers, pieeeeded to the
spot, and were set to work in removing the wreck of the
two trains front the line. They commenced their labours
about 3 o'clock in the morning; and notwithstanding the
immense number of men employed, the down line was not
cleared in sufficient time to allow the 15 minutes after seven
o'clock train, due at Bishop's Stortford at 18 minutes after 9,
to won. The consequence was that this train was detained
until 9 o'clock before it got into the Bishop's Stortford station.
Throughout the whole of Saturday all the trains between
London and Cambridge were detained a considerable time;
and it was not until a late hour on Saturday evening that the
up-line was thoroughly cleared, and the rails relaiu, so as to
allow trains to come up with safety.
Several of the directors, accompanied by Mr. Money, the
secretary, visited the spot during the day, and it is under-
stood a rigid investigation will be instituted by the board to
ascertain who are the culpable parties The engine of the
grain-train is completely destroyed, and the loss altogether is
calculated at not less than 3,0001.
DEATH FROM JUMPING OUT OF A RAILWAY CAR-1
RIAGE.—Oa Friday evening, at half-past eight o'clock, im-
mediately before the up train on the Eastern Counties
Railway had reached the platform at Brick-lane, where the
tickets are taken, a young mats named Stewart, a servant of
the company, opened the door of the carriage in which he ,
was seated, while the train was at full speed, and was in the
act of hastily descending, when his foot slipped, and he fell
on the rail. The wheels of the carriages passed over him,
literally cutting his body in two. The accident was solely
attributable to the unfortunate man himself. It app an
I that he had been married only five or six weeks, and that he
was on his way up from Tottenham, where he is stationed, ,
to see his wife. 'fhe reason of his quitting the carriage ,
before the train stopped was, that he had no ticket, and as i
the company charge for their servants the same as for other
persons, when they travel, however short the distance, he
sought to evade payment of the fare by getting out before
the train reached the place where the tickets are taken.

LEVERRIEIed PLANET.—M. Arago has sent the fol-
lowing note, referring to M. tulle's remarkable &lawyer'',
and M. Leverrier's yet more remarkable prediction, to a
French paper :—" On examining with greet care the analy-
tical theory of Uranus, M. Leve tier ascertained that the
great irregularity shown by the observations that had been
made on the motion of this planet arose from the action of
an unknown body, whose exact position and diameter he
determined by calculation. All the predictions of the theory
have just been verified, and our solar system is enriched by
a planet which in 1,2:50 millions of leagues (about 3,125 mil-
lions of English miles) distant from the sun. Its volume is
ab ,ut 230 times that of the earth. Antroromers will learn
with pleasure tha• the position of the new planet is precisely
that watch M. LP% trrier assigned to it in the theory which
he sent to M. Galle. The diameter resulting from the ob-
servations at Berlin is of three seconds, as M. Lcvetrier had
said. M. Galle appears disposed to call the new planet
Janus, from considerations borrowed from the hypothesis
that it may be on the confines of our solar system. M. Le•
Terrier, to whom belongs the right of naming it, does not
agree to the too significative name of Janus, but will consent
to any other—Neptune, for iisstance—which would have the
went of astronomers."
_ .

THE NEWLY-DISCOVERED PLANET.—Sir In it
not very ilea/ire that there should be any doubt and discrepance en-
ing in the mind* of astronomers, with regard to the name to be
even to the newly-dissavertd planet! If frequently the discovery of
a new slwei's 01 some Paltry grass is made the memo of perpetuating
the name of its (wail disiviverer, with lams much more uftequateness
and propriety ought this new planet, by being ilikined after its dis-
coverer, he made the mear.s of bonding down to posterity the gloriona
name of "Les eerier," who achi•-yol one of the proudest triumplus of
the human mood, and by the grateful acknowledgment of which, we
but honour and pay homage to the dignity of our own nature. I
think it would be a eery mocha] and grateful improvement intro-
duced into that sublimeet of sciences, into agronomy, if, instead of
peopling the arena, that everlasting revelation of the living Goa, as
it were inairofitne mockery, with the torren names of the nonentities of
a monstrous mythology of pagan, if we were to imitate these latter
so far as to raise and trans!er the name: of the great and good of this
earth amongst the aura in the skim, and thus make of these one soot
grand Walhalla of human greatness+ and worth. The contemplation of a
thus located heaven would have an additional apiritualizing interest
for the beholder, and could be made to answer excellent end: in
national education. For patterns of wisdom, virtue, faith, and hope,
our searching glances would then be directed to the constellations of
the heavens, which. beautifully realising and verifying, at last, the
belief of the astrologers of old, would then shoot down living influ-
ence on our courae, am they ever did and do on our physical nature.
But I am afraid thin proposition will be considered rank revolutionary
hemsy by the conatituted a tronomical authorities and powers that be,
the carrying out of which, they would my, threatens to derange and
throw into confusion their heavenly sphere., and I w.ll theref ire con-
fine myself to my first proposition, on which I orenunugy insist
via., to name the new pkuiet by h. discoverer " Lererrier."
" Palmation icral, goof ineritit."
I haw the honour to be, Sir, your obedient !errant, Da. ILersiden
Dm—A/et 10, 1016.

IRELAND.

EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERIES AT NINEVETI.—
Mr. Layard, an English gentleman, has for the last twelve-
month been pursuing the track—first laid open by M. Botta
—at Nimroud, near Mosul, on the Tigris. His excavations
have not only settled Ike precise position of Nineveh—the
very existence of which had become little better than a
vague historic dream—but have brought to light some of its
buildings, sculptures, and inscriptions. According to
accounts received at Constantinople some months since, and
communicated in the .4lhena•um of Saturday last, Mr.
Layard had discovered an entrance formed by two magnifi-
cent winged, human-handed lions. This entrance led him
into a hall above 150 feet long and 30 broad—entirely
, built of slabs of marble, covered with sculptures.
I The side-walls are ornamented with small banreliefs,
of the highest interest—battle sieges, lion hunts, &c. ;
many of them in the finest state of preservation, and
all executed with extraordinary spirit. They afford a com-
plete history of the military art amongst the Assyrians ; and
prove their intimate knowledge of many of those machines
of war whose invention is attributed to the Greeks and Romans
- such as the battering ram, the tower moving on wheels,
the catapult, &c. Nothing can exceed the beauty and ele-
gance of the forms of various arms, swords, daggers, bows,
spears, &c. In this great hall there are several entrances—
each formed by winged lions or winged bulls. These lead
into other chambers; which, again, branch off into a hun-
dred ramifications. Every chamber is built of slabs covered
with sculptures or inscriptions : whence some idea may be
formed of the number of objects discovered—the far greater
part of which, in fact nearly all, are in the best preservation.
Mr. Layard's excavations have been hitherto confined to a
very small corner of the mound, under which these antiqui-
ties have for ages been buried ; it is impossible to say what
may come out when they can be carried forward on an ade-
quate scale.

DUBLIN, Ocr. 10.
THE LABOUR RATE ACT.

KING'S COUNTY.—CLONLIt.K.—On Tuesday en ex-
traordinary presentment sessions was held at Shinrone
for this barony, Colonel Lloyd in the chair. A sum
of 5,700/. was prtoented for the employment of the people
for three months, being Is. in the poun•t on the poor-law
valuation of the barony. At the close of the proceedings the
Rev. Mr. Stoney divided one pound's worth of bread
amongst the labouring clauses who thronged the streets.
Such was their rapaciousness, it is said, from hunger, that
they insisted on getting it out of the oven half-baked.

TIPPERARY.—IKERMS: BARONT.—On Wednesday,
the sessions for this barony was held at Roserea :
" Notwithstanding the inclemency of the morning," says the local
journal, " long before the tame of meeting the passages leading to the
court were dt nsely crowd II by the labouring poor of the barony, and
the unemployed artisans of Rescrea and it, vicinity. The destitution
and suffering; of the poor of the barony of Ikerrin at this moment are
appalling—many of them declared to me that they had not partaken
of food for twenty-four hours, and that unless instantaneous relief
and employment he given to them, hundreds of them would un-
doubtedly die of starvation. Their gaunt countenances bespoke their
doleful condition. The attendance of the Catholic and Protestant
clergy and gentry of the barony was most numerous, and indeed I
must, to the credit of all who attended, observe that the meeting
was chara.eterined by a laudable anxiety to give the people employ-
ment The lint L. A. Pritte, Corvine, was called to the chair.
Mr. John Lanigan, Richmond—Mr. chairtnan I think it would he of
the utmost importance that we should agree to a resolution here to-
day, to call on government to pass another act of retrlbunent to tax
the monetary interest of the country ; for I contend that it is very
wrong, and a grievous hardship, to !cry the entire amount of taxation
on the ratepayer+ and eewpayeta and landboloera for indeed they .re
heavily taxed alreaLy. I say that the tundholders of Ireland should
be taxed. :Hear bear.) Chairman—And the ateentee Landlords.
(" Hear. heir," Lad cheers.) Mr. Lanigan—Most certainly, they
should be taxed. (Hear, hear.) We will Lear our owa portion of the
taxation, and we are willing to shire our last shilling with the people.
," Hear, hear," and cheer.) Chairman—Mr. Lanigan, have the
kindness to put to your proposition in writing, and I am sure it will
be agreed to. Mr:Lanigan accordingly drew up a resolution to the
above effect, which was seconded, and earned unanimously."
A proposition to present SW/. for the erection of a new
Roman Catholic chapel at Roscrea was rejected, on the

ground that the sessions had no power to present money to
be expended on any other than manual labour. The Burn
of 8,7001. was then presented for three months' employ-
ment, and the session was dissolved.

KILKENNY.—Butoxv or GALMOT.—A presentment
sessions was held in Urlingford, for the barony of Galmoy,
under the Labour-rate Act, Captain I)elayney, J.P., in the
chair. Some useful new roads were passed; also 1,5001. to
open mead stores in each of the three villages of Urlingford,
Johnstown, and Lisdowney, to sell meal twenty per cent.
under first cost; also, on the suggestion of Mr. Cahill, 6001.
to build a fever hospital, which is very much wanted for the
district, provided the money should he all laid out in labour,
and the building materials supplied by a sub,criptien. Total
sum pasted, 11,3381.: Poor-law valuation of said barony is
27 0001. _ _

_
CAVAN.—On Tuesday lost an extraordinary sessions was
held at Killyshandra, county of Cavan, for the barony of
Tullighunco, at which the magistrates and cess-payers as.
sembled, in anticipation of the instructions contained in the
Lord Lieutenant's letter published in Thursday's Daily
News, after passing 6,0001. for ordinary roads, &c., resolved
upon presenting, " for thorough-draining, fencing, and
other permanent improvements of all the townlanda of the
barony, tending to increase the productiveness of the soil, or
the absolute value of the said townlands, the sum of 12,700/.
—the amount to be expended upon each townland being, in
every instance, equal to one-half the yearly value of such
towuland, according to the last poor-law valuation." This
presentment was passed by acclamation, with the unanimous
consent of every farmer, labourer, magistrate, and cess-payer
present, the proposal nut eliciting the expression of even oue
dissentient voice.

CLA Or ISLANDS.—There was a meeting
of magistrates, gentlemen, and eesspayers, on the 6th, in
Newmarket-on•Fergns, for the purpose of concluding the
businessof the Baronial Sessions, held on Thursdy se'nnigkt.
It was numerously attended. Many of the people were
rather disorderly in shouting for work, and attaching blame
to the gentlemen, for what they termed unnecessary delay
of the work. They were very ably addressed by the Right
Rev. Dr. Kennedy wad Mr. Singleton, who showed that the
gentlemen were doing an much u they possibly could to
obtain immediate employment, and food for them. After
speaking at some length, they partially succeeded in quieting
the discontent of the people. The Bishop read a letter from
Mr. Hill, county surveyor, in which it was stated that every
thing possible was done for them, and that they would get
immediate employment. Some cases of extreme want were
adduced, after which the business was proceeded with,
and all went on in perfect harmony. Sum granted,
42.5991. 17s.

INCUR/I:lN.—There was an extraordinary sessions held on
Saturday last for the barony of Inchiquin, F. J. Fitzgerald
presiding, when the sum of 64,6721. were presented for the
employment of the destitute.
KERRY.—DINOLE BARONY.—The extraordinary ses-
sions for this barony were held on the 3rd insttnt, the Right
Hon. Lord Ventry in the chair. Works to the amount of
40,00 W. were presented for, and the proceedings, though
unimportant in their character, did not terminate until
eleven o'clock at night.
BARONY or SNEEM.—The sessions commenced here on
the 6th of October. Mr. Daniel O'Connell was amongst
the parties present. The first portion of the proceedings
took place in the chapel of Sneem, and the justices and cess-
payers voted the sum of 20,0001. for public works, to ho ex-
pended in the half-barony of South Dunkerron. After the
sum was voted, a committee was formed of the Justices, &c.,
to apply the sum in accordance with the wants of the people
in the several parishes within the half barony. Mr. O'Con-
nell declared, in addressing the people, that heconsidered the
sum voted was not adequate to the want, of the people ;
however if necessary when occasion required, he with the
other Justices, &c,, were ready to meet the emergency with
further grants,.

SUPPLY OF FOOD.—LoRD MOUNT CAoRELE.—In a letter
which the Earl of Mount Cullen has addressed to the Com-
missary General for Ireland, his lordship says :
I addremed a few days since a pressing letter to Sir R. Booth,
begging, as an act of mercy, that he would allow me to purchase from
the govereitnent odor.", at Cove two or three tuna of Indian meal per
week, in order to gave the people here from all the horror of
want. Yesterday, I received his reply, by which it appear*
that through cone secret influence only the inhabitants to
the west of Skibbereen are to be favoured, whilst the .toning
thousands in the counties of Cork and Waterford are to hr abinshoned
to their own desperate resources." (The noble earl proceeds:', "Does
Sir R. Routh not know that the price of wheat and barley exceeds con-
siderably that of lonian meal, even at the exorbitant pow the mer-
chants and dotter.. now ask for it! Is he ignorant that Kink flour
now sells here for An. the hundred weight ; seconds, Ins to 195., and
hour...hold front 17s. to las.; and that as ment cosh. 17s. Ad., whilst
the actual price of Indian meal is lea. lid. per ewt., or Is. I Id. the
atone, which include,. a very moderate profit of the retailero, and an
allowance for unavoidable waste! Row, I ask, ran the poor man
exist, who has no employment! and the labourer who gains his std.
per day, how can he support a large family of helpless children, when
food is at the above prices Ills lordship concludes by recommending
abllc granaries, as in Egypt, Rome, and more recently in Switzer-
To this epistle Sir R. Routh replies, that it were better
the corn grown in the country should for the present be con-
sumed than Indian meal at the prices Lord Mount Cashell
quotes ,• and the wholesomeness of this advice would seem
also to have occurred to the Clare Journal, in which I Lind
the following paragraph:—
" Our country pimento at this time on extraordinary anomaly. The
people are in great distresa for want of food, yet there is pleuty and
to spare of food in the country —that food, however, which the people
should consume, is every day bring gent out of the country, and the
people are looline to receive fool five thou,ind net, away, to aißed
them support. Where is there any onuntry to be found %finitely cies
mood:irked Why are we to hay the corn grown by the stronger be-
fore we consume mar own ! We have scares of person porehasing
'Huhu' corn for the Irish, and those WIMP persona buying Inst. now
for expotation—buying Indian corn sit 6.1. or 7.1. a atone, and expect-
ing to diiposs. of that to the Ire,h at the times thecae boring
Irish curs at lod. and In, a atone, and disposing of it at lot. or 2.1. '
APPALLIND DEsTITUTION IN MAYO.—The Very lies.
James Mac Hale, P.P., lisllymount, Mayo, in a letter dated
October 9, draws the following appalling picture of the
condition of that county :
"ikathis I regret to we, innumerable from starvation, and its dire-
ful effeet•, plunder, robberies, and main attacks on property, are
tiCelll ring every day, the bonds of society are almost dimolved. Par-
liament has made ample provisions for obviating thew unparalleled
evils, and yet they are suffered to oontinue. panipered
appointed to carry into eteet the merciful and just ilispewitions of the
legislature, removed, RA they are, from these saner of heartrending
dimmest, can have no idea elf them, and do not appear to give them-
Relies much trouble about them, though well paid filir doing so. Were
th• y, however, to see the tear, running down the squalid faces 14 the
manilla when their children were crying in vain for food; were they
to hear the piercing craw of the poor children; were they to witness
the scene that occurs when the clergynuM is rolled on to administer the
last cilia of the church to the (snow enisturea sinking wider the weight
of destitution, then, indeed, might they, if they could at all bestow a
thought On such things, form some idea of these appalling ore 1arr1.11(14....
OrTRAUES.—Ott Saturday night last two sheep were killed
in a field near this town, and the flesh and fleece carried off.
The entrails were scattered about. —Last week seventeen
sheep were stolen off the lands of Kilflynn, and driven to
Newcastle, county Limerick. AVe understand one man has
been arrested fur the robbery.—A correspondent of the
Weekly Register, writing from Ballinrobe, Mayo, says, that
sheep are killed on the land around that town every night,
and their carcasses taken away the skins ere always left.
MERTINOs Eon (iItATEITDI2B RELIEV.—NENAGII.—A
meeting, called by requisition, was held in Nenagh on
Thursday, "for the purpose of originating a collection to
raise a sum of money to supply the poor in wholesome pro-
visions, at a reasonable price." There were but few persons
present. At one o'clock, the appointed hour, the !tee.
James H. Poe, was called to the chair. A subscription list
was opened fur the purpose of purchasing Indian meal, and
selling it at first cost to the ptor of the town, when the sum
of 50/. was instantly subscribed for that put pose, as well as ;
to afford in some cases gratuitous relief. In relation to the
distress existing in North Tipperary, 1 Sad the following in
the Nenaglt Guardian of this day
"In our last publiintion we noticed the forbearance of the peaanntry
of this district, in the awful circumstances in which they are placed,
and we cannot hut feel adtnination at the ralmneo. with chid, they
await the promised Mid which the government have so long and so
repeatedly held out to them; but it is not in human nature patiently
to endure starvation ; and, unless we shall very shortly heir of some-
thing more substantial than promises to satisfy the cravings of our
famile-itricken population the oldest or the wieciit amongst w cannot
fontell the fearful results."
ABANDONMENT OF THE INTENDED LANDLORD MEET-
ING.—The letter of the Lord Lieutenant authorising the
application of the Labour Rate Act to reproductive works,
• has caused the abandonment of the intended meeting of
landed proprietors.
APPREHENDED DISTURBANCES AT BANDON.—The ma-
gistrates being apprehensive, took the precaution of obtain-
ing a reinforcement of military for the protection of the town
in addition to the usual number stationed there, and accord.
ingly a detachment of the s.ith regiment front Cork garrison
marched in on Tuesday evening in aid of the civil power.
The troops were placed under the direction of Mr.
Little, R.M., and remained under arms all day, ready to
turn out at a moment's notice. Most fortunately, however,
their services were entirely dispensed with, the town being
perfectly quiet all day, with the exception of the bustle
Incidental to the usual monthly fair, which was being held
here. Shortly after dusk, the Cork journal continues, a
number of the unemployed labourers of the town assembled
• about the court-house, asking to be employed next day on
the public works, and expressing the privations they were
enduring by reason of the want of employment hitherto, and
the high prices of provisions. On hearing this, Mr. Little,
• R.M. ordered the court-house to be opened and lights
brought, and in a few miuutes a large concourse of them
was collected in that building. Mr. Little addressed them
to the following effect :
Ile wished to announce to them that there were now eight new
road, in the neighbourhood of the town ready to be commenced to-
morrow morning ("Glory to you, sir"). Every pesetas recommended
by the relief committee woula be employed. ("tang life to them"). !
The wages would commence-at lid, per day. (Murours of dig.
approbation, and cries of " What good is it!") But be had better
news for them. (A Voice—" That would be easy.") There was
a possibility that it would be increased. Athough there appeared to ;
be some prejudice against task-work, they would all find it would be
much to their advantage to take it. An erroneous impression pre-
vailed that task work was very severe and the labour ill-paid for; but
the contrary was the case ; an ordinary labourer could earn loom 10d.
to Is. per day by it, and a good labourer, who would exert himself,
from Is. 4d. to Is. bit, Labourers who would not exert themseleem
and work task work, should be governed by the Treasury minute, and
paid accordinglv. The price of breaking atones would vary so as to
enable a diligent man to earn a good day's wages. Now, he thought
if there was ever a generous and fair proposal to give relief by the
employment of the people, that which he had explained was. They
would be paid for the wet day IV well as the dry day. (Cheers, and
cries of " That's right.") lie hoped the exertican+ which were being
made In their behalf would amply compensate them Air the patient
manner in which they had hitherto borne all their privations, and
which all the authorities and the government were quite aware of."

THE LATE AFFRAY AT CARTLECONNELL.—The soldier
of the 88th who waa wounded at the time, and who, we un-
derstand, was a very young man, scarcely eighteen years of
age, from the Silvernunes, of the name of Gleason, expired
on Thursday, after enduring great agony. The excitement
continued very great in eastliconnell, and the police were
very generally blamed for their me of fire-arms, notwith-
standing the provocation they received. An inquest was yes-
terday (Friday) held by Mr. Bennet, on view of the body of
the soldier, and a verdict according to the facts was returned.
—Tipperary Vindicator.
SECEDERS FROM TALE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The
Pa-
tio» of this day says :" We publish to-day 45 other seceuions