The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-24 00:00:00

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THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1847.

own reicklimeness. Trwpaw rs sufficed severely. Nineteen
moose were killed on the various lines who had no business
on them, sad seven were injured. One person was killed
and ens injured in emmequenot of crossing the railway, at
level crossings, owing to the misconduct of companies'
servants.

THE LIVERPOOL DEPUTATION AND THE
...RAILWAY COMPANIES.

Yesterday a deputation, consisting of Mr. D. Neil-
son, Mr. 8. Woods, Mr. Henley, and others, deputed by the
Liverpool Stock Exchange, waited on the chairman and
directors of the principal railway companies, in accordance
with the wishes of the members of the Liverpool Stock
Exchange, to take into consideration the present state of
railway prowq, and to adopt such measures as might be
deemed advisable.
Thy deputation Brit proceeded to an interview with Mr.
George Carr Glyn, the chairman, and the directors of the
London and North Western Railway, who met them at the
Euston station, where Mr. Neilson intimated the views that
were entertained by the members of the Liverpool Stock
Exchange, to the effect that the present depression of rail-
way property was being greatly aggravated by the enormous
sums the railway companies were calling for, and that perms.
reran.", in such a course would perpetuate the embarrw-
ments that exist not only in the railway interest, but in
every branch of the commerce of the country. This in-
convenience might be be remedied by a cordial union among
railway companies.
Mr. GLYN, in reply to the representation' of the deputa-
tion, said he was not aware that he could add anything to
the declaration he had already made public when addressing
the proprietors of the London and North Western, at the
half-yearly meeting Last month. The directo:s of the London
and North Western were fully determined to wry out that
declaration, namely, that they would limit their calls as
much as practicable, and not enter into any new contracts
connected with bill; for lines that were granted last session,
excepting under very special circumstanoes, shou'd any such
arise. _ _

Mr. Hu DSON, M.P., as the representative of the Midlands,
Eastern Counties, and other companies, concurred in what
lad fallen from Mr. Glyn.
The deputation then dilated upon what they conceived
would be the advantages accruing from an aggregate meet•
lag of the different railway companies.
The directors preeent replied that the circumstances, financial
and otherwise, of the several railway companies, were so diverse
and varied, as to render it next to impossible that all should
',occur in the specific mode of action. The deputation, how-
ever, were perfectly at liberty to make use of the unqualified
declarations of Mr. Olyn and Mr. Hudson in any public con-
ferences with other compenies. It was right, however, that
they should know that a considerable portion of the calls that
were now being made by the various companies of which
Mr. Glyn and Mr. Hudson were the representatives, were
for the purpose of paying off debentures, and a very large
sou lad within a very short period been repaid to the Bank
of Elgiand on that account, and consequently re-circulated,
thus returning into the hands of the mercantile community.'
Hence the calls which paid off these debentures' were
calls which would have fallen on the proprietors, if the de-
bentures had not been issued as far back as the year 1843
and 1844. After considerable discussion the deputation

inquiries, directed Sir William Somerville 61 re-
ply, and the Chief Secretary states diet
with every_ disposition to encourage Irish manufac-
ture, his Excellency " cannot cha the arrange-
ments now in progress without risk of public inconve-
nience, and without giving just ground of complaint
to individuals who may have made preparations to
send in Proposals in the terms of the advertisements."
He mays that, for the future, the wishes of Irish ma-
nufacturers ought as far as possible to be attended td;
and his Excellency suggests that, "if they will
submit such samples of their manufacture as will bear
competition with the sealed patterns now deposited
with the ordnance department, the Inspector-General
of Police will gladly make any change to a
free competition between the manufacturer,°:eroriboth
countries." Nothing can be fairer than this proposal,
and nothing more encouraging than the activity which
gu the application.
Reetard of guardians of the Antrim union have
set themselves in determined antagonism to the Poor
Law Commissioners. Immediately upon the New
Poor Law coming into operation, the commissioners
issued a general order to all boards of guardians to
appoint relieving officers according to the intent and
of the act. In Antrim the guardians met
tits ids by a resolution in which they declare that
Awe is abundant employment in the union for all
who are willing to work ; that " the price of provi-
de= is so moderate as to place the means of subsis-
-11.00 within the power even of those whom the act
WWI intended to relieve ; that the experience of the
pot twelve months shows there is little if any reason
la apprehend that any amount of destitution will
affise with which the guardians cannot deal ; and that
lime is in the workhouse at present room for 300
paupers. Therefore they decline to appoint
relieving officers. The commissioners, in reply, re-
mind those guardians that the injunctions of the law
are express; they remind them also that the guardians
may prefer giving out-door relief in certain cases,
though they (the commissioners) will be slow to fetter
their discretion, should they prefer affording it in the
workhouse; but even in this case they say the relieving
officers can always give the guardians valuable in-
formation, and therefore reason and policy require
they should comply with the law. The guardians
refuse point-blank, and thus the affair stands at
present.
A circumstance has occurred at Nenagh, which is
singularly illustrative of the source in which the
opposition to rates has originated. It was proposed
at the meeting of the guardians on Monday teat, that
a rate of 17,000/.,laid on a fortnight before, should be
rescinded, and that one not exceeding 3s. in the pound
be laid on. This latter rate :could not be erfficient for
the purposes of the poor relief under the act, and
the proposition was defeated by the votes of the
elected guardians, the ex officio guardians almost una-
nimously supporting it.
A plot has been discovered to have been concocted
in Armagh gaol, for the purpose of breaking prison
after the murder of the officers. Fortunately no por-
tion of the creel plan could be put in practice.
The accounts from the provinces to-day announce
an universal advance in the price, of wheat, but not
in those of other kinds of grain.

MIL JOHN O'CONNELL ON THE STATE OP ISELAND.—
Mr. John O'Connell has published in the Pilot this evening
another address touching the present condition of the
country. Ilia argument-is, that whereas the English press
throws the burthens of Ireland upon " landlords employ-
ment and the poor-rates," the landlords must be crippled by
the tenants' inability to pay rents, mach less can they pay
rent and rates ; there is no employment front manufactures,
and " the absentees drain away more than one-third the
employment fund derivable from the land ;" and with regard
to the alternative that "the estates mutt be seized," he
reminds those who advocate this that before it is done, " the
small rate-payers must be crushed down into the ranks of
pauperism."—What then is Mr. O'Connell's remedy J II is
thus detailed: _ _ .

_ .
Parliament should be maid at apes. and =as Ifenies
temporary relief m em..er... as Os scmokihm el the oalikhed
ef the Ilsed dspale gtm
breethio4 expelmest hags be
prO.
=lt ideate at that yeeflair, NO wile, be metered
by mesgellhay akemlem to retort Mem art not
mops se saw walk the lamest of me mom Mt sive
the Writ
far: resoml Isemohell impenitent bY
asiimme t host the sem On .ilia oe localities
prase they drew the remora they new epasiabie ret ef the eon.
try. Of coarse, it vial. aim at imiteat—gestegs the art Maim
mreasky—to emy the IssikeiN WI to NNW and ONO= et the
Ney, told lea erase *Mel algae would justify •ealang to-
ot ;submittals the mot week.l &Isom of mope sal
eviettsa of temok no with fearful mpielity at this mo-
nomer swim perm • as most Instant end urgent is the
moil dice= shed to them if wiwoold have a hope of preserving the
I pease of theamary. No gum to the landlords if they don't show
memo to therapist
Mr. O'Connell then ps:oceeds to say, that the calamity
.HILL to he easeidered an 'imperial " calamity, and be daft
with sooordhpyly and on this ground he contends that as in
1842 the financial ability of Ireland was considered to be in
proportion to that of Great Britain as one to nine, Ireland
should only pay of the advances on account of the famine
1,112,0001., instead of 5,566,5001. Mr. O'Connell next enters
into the question of =credited taxation, and recommending
the reclamation of waste lands closes this his first letter.

SCOTLAND.

EDINIWROH, Bspr. 22.

The North British Mail and the ScoiaMan are at
present hunting couple, and their game is—the high-
lands. The manifesto of Lord Abinger's six tenants
has caused the Mail to return to Torlundy Moss ; and
it submits with some force, whether aix sheep-farmer
tenants should be held as an adequate representation of
the eighty names on his lordship's rent-roll, the majo-
rity being land-farmers. Moreover, there is a " wheel
within a wheeL" The tenant meeting was called at
the instigation of a tenant of Lord Abinger, whose
son is said to have been the correspondent of the
Times during the residence of the Queen at Ard-
verikie. Thea Mail reached London sooner than the
written copy of the correspondent, and the Times
coolly made use of the Mail's information without ack-
nowledgment. It was, therefore, very awkward that
" our own correspondent" should appear to have at-
tacked his father's landlord in the Times, and the
meeting was got up to neutralise its effect. Such is the
origin which the Mail gives to the meeting. The
Scotsman, on the principle of the division of labour,
still keeps at the Highland Destitution Board, and
quotes the government commissariat, Sir Edward
Coffin, as to the ability and unwillingness of the
Celtic proprietors to maintain their own poor, and it
concludes with the following version of the manner
in which the relief system was conducted :

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visa taw vim wag lask Nistbst at Ws. Nal Ws. Tim Der.
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cow usass Ass wan Maid. Ws ins Mad a reeve
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teen ea oar IR • to lai; awl Os maillemieb that as brat
hautbois Id glib wady Arne beb la are "Mk. 711, imam,
of this ie—that Ile berg bit de alms beaurial prise;
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after miegf via alt bi sigglist by private
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the amalgam. Ow we WI alb lat s moll put of task ware
stook min!
_ _

Some interesting questions have been raised as to
the vacancy in the Edinburgh chair of Hebrew. By
law every professor should sign the confession of
faith of the Westminster assembly of divines, but,
seeing that many of the present professors are episx.
palians, and one of them, Mr. Kelland, professor of
mathematics, is in English orders, it is obvious that
this restriction has either fallen into desuetude, or, if
enforced, is practically inoperative. According to
this view, dissent should form no barrier to admis-
sion ; but then the Hebrew chair has long been re-
garded as belonging to the theological faculty, and
hence a presumption that the incumbent should be
a clergyman, or, at all events, a layman of the esta-
blished church. Against that again has to be placed
the fact that since the institution of the chair in 1642
an episcopalian and a Jew have taught therefrom;
the latter not having been a christianised Israelite,
bat what was Faistafa detestation—an " Ebrew
Jew." Principal Lee, who knows more about univer-
sity
.antiquities than any man alive, was consulted by
an inquiring councillor ; but his response was so
mysterious that the curious the
satisfactory


set up a rabbi of their own, and then the professor
elect would be left to starve on his Hebrew roots,
plus the thirty pounds allowed him by the crown
and the eighty-five given by the council. But to
other university matters. The council have neither
forgotten nor forgiven the refusal of the senators to fit
up the music class room at the cost of the Reid fund,
and they have now found an opportunity of giving the
professors a Rowland for their Oliver. The professor
of materia medics wishes to have his class-room
painted, of which, judging of its appearance some
years ago, we should say it stands in need, and the
council reply that the music-room cost them so much
that they have no moneys. left, but on that item being
refunded they will "consider."
The council are to apply to government for grants
to the Edinburgh University and High School. Were
the tests in the former abolished, the application
would probably be more successful. The council, how-
ever, are not altogether unmindful of university re-
form, as they are to solicit the Latin and Greek pro-
fessors not to admit students to their classes without
a given minimum amount of preparatory learning.
Out of doors the winter campaign of preleotion will
be rather high. The philosophical institutions are
understood to have engaged Mr. Morrell, Mr. Emer-
son, Professorßlackie, Mr. Westmacott, &c., to lecture
to them.

REPRIEVE TO LUTA TRIM VADERIIB,—A communication
WU received at Dundee on Monday from the Home-office, by
Mr. Duncan, M.P., in answer to the petition recently for-
warded, prayiqg that Leith's sentence of death should be
commuted to that of transprtation. The basis of the petition
was the petitioners' abhorrence of capital punishments, and
I the sentence being passed on circumstantial evidence alone.
I The Home Secretary's answer was prompt and decisive. He
could not feel warranted in taking a favourable view of the
cue, so that the law must take its course. Preparations
were, accordingly, made for the execution on Wednesday
morning, when, most unexpectedly, Tuesday mornings poet
brought a reprieve for fourteen days. Public feeling here is
certainly not to favour of .' killing by the hangman."
Tan WOO'S OP DR. CHALMERS.— 4' I. Scriptural
Commentary" consists of two series. " The Daily Scripture
Readings "as described by Dr.Chalniers himself, embody his
first and readiest thoughts upon the paeans' coming daily
under review. They begin with Genesis, and are carried
down to the end of Jeremiah. The " Sabbath Meditations"
are of a more devotional character. They embrace the com-
plete New Testament, and beginning with Genesis, in the
Old, conclude with the Second Book of Kings. Besides
these additions to our religious literature, the posthumous
works include the theological lectures of Dr. Chalmers,
which firm a complete and comprehensive treatise on sys-
tematic divinity. The aeries will also contain, besides the
biography, a selection from Dr. Chalmers pulpit discourses.
We are informed the sum of 10,0001., mentioned by the Ob-
server as the price to be paid by Mr. Constable to the repre-
sentatives of Dr. Chalmers for the copyright, is incorrect.
The amount will, toe great extent, depend on the success of
the publication.