The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1848.

tween France and Belgium—that the former enter-
tained a profound and inviolable respect for Belgian
independence and nationality, and for the neutrality
which WAS solemnly guaranteed by treaties to the
latter." .

Mainers was totally suspended yesterday on the
Brussels and Antwerp exchanges.
The Independonee of this evening states that the
individual (M. BAker) who is at the head of the so-
called
Belgian-Parisian Company, having in view the
proclaiming of a republic in this count.' y, was ex-
pelled from Belgium by order of a council of war,
fur forgery.
The civic guard still continues under army.
The French Provisional Government has addressed
a letter to the Belgian Minister at Paris, respecting
the armament decreed by this country.
The continued depression of our funds, and the
cessation of nearly all monetary transactions, are
creating considerable enessiness. The banks are pro-
ceeding very cautiously in their discounts. At
Bruges an appeal has been made to the inha-
bitants to give encouragement to th 2 national manu-
factories. _ .

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The great procession of the Carnival came off
yesterday amidst sleet and rain. Every window was
tilled with ladies and children anxious to get a sight
as it passed. Tho utmost gaiety and good humour
prevailed.

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standing, rof lets meld he redoes the rates upon
the inhabiteets of this city. The sewers which we have constructed
ham been built upon the MMadest principles, with the tow to
benefit posterity as well as the gement generation, and in conformity
with the Periposat end opinions of prof...doted men of known and
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.1( the sole Mee Maar MEIN. • system which, by depnving the
people of their Pit tfalies of the mmegentent and control of their
own Whim. his les Y a country to a change in the
whole system d The results which would follow a
system el whoa serried out by a transfer of the
power now anise by** people into tie hands of government
menmimkreilly meet be, thure, obvious to all who serioutly reflect
upon the mibjeett ma we feel It our duty to express our conrictioe
that the comegeemese de government board with government influ-
ence, and a peuenege serried oat to all the minute details of all in-
ternal drainage, geeing, and other similar works, with the raising
and bin nig et eaeep under the eciatrol of government Mimes, will
be found a meettetolerable burden. We are satitad your honour-
MI: court will feel the I, ijmuce of taking the control of the sewers of
the City of london out of the hoods of the repreeenUitivee of the
people, and we recommend yoor hoeourable court to persevere in the
bill which the commatimers hare brought Into parliament by your
rime:log and to oppose in the meet decided manner any bill
which may be broiled lino parliament by the government, to deprive
the citizens of Loudon of the management and regulations of their
scene, which from the earlieet period they have esercised.
Deputy Peacock moved that the report be printed, and a
copy sent to each member, and permission be given to the
comminionme to Circulate weir, wherever and to whet
extent they should consider neces.ary.
—Mr. J. T. Norris seconded the motion.
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Mr. said that Lord Morpeth declared there was
little doubt that the City seweregewea a model for all others.
(Cheers.) What then could government mean after such an
acknowledgment ? The citizens would, he trusted, take
care not to surrender their rights tamely into such unscru-
pulous hands—Mr. Anderton impressed upon the civic com-
munity the necessity of retaining the management of their
own affairs in their own hands. In other countries the bad
effects of the system of centralisation of which the govern-
ment measure formed a part had been felt ; and he trusted
that England would, on every occasion, mist any at'empt to
extend it. (Cheers.) He believed the press would be in
favour of the citizens in opposing so mischievous an encroach-
ment. (Loud eheers.)—After several observations from Mr.
R. Taylor, Mr. Wire, Mr. Harrison, Mr Kemp, and others,
the motion was agreed to unanimously, and amidst the
loudest cheers.

METROPOLITAN COMMISSIONERS OF
SEWERS. _

The metropolitan sanitary commissioners held a
court of sewers at ten o'clock yesterday morning. Lord
Morpeth in the chair. Among the trommisaionen present
were Mr. Chadwick, the Hon. Mr. Byng, the Dean of West-
miaster, Mr. Broderip, Lord Bbrington, Mr. Lambert Jones,
Mr. Leslie, &c. On the motion of the chairman, it was or-
dered by the court that a precept be issued to the Sheriff of
Middlesex, to return a jury to make presentment of the
parties and property liable to be rated to the eastern division
of Westminster sewers, and the court for the division was
appointed to meet on the 10th of April.
It was ela ordered that 460 feet of sewer be built in the
Marylebone and Finchley-road, upon t .e payment of the
sum of 2,0001. by Mr. Iford on befall of Mr. lidwards.
The report of Mr. Phillips, surveyor, on the report of
the sanitary committee of Idarylebone, was ordered to be
printed.
On the motion of the noble chairman, it was ordered that
860 feet of 12-inch drain-pipe:be laid down in an open ditch
receiving the drainage of many houses in Gloucester-street,
Sboreditch ; and power was given to the committee for ge-
neral put poses to appoint an assistant surveyor for the Hol-
born and Finsbury district.
The Bscarrsay then read the following resolutions of the
committee for general purposes :
Resolved, ann. cow, that the public refuse of cities is the property
of the public. That the refuse matters riontained in the sewers of the
metropolis should remain under the control of the metrop:ibtan com-
missioners of sewers. That any profit obtainable from such refuse
matters should he applied, under the sanction of the commissioners
of sewers, to the dilatation of the rates. That the bill of the Great
London Drainage Company, now before the house, would entirely ap-
propriate to this private company, without any compensation, the
whole produce of the metropobtan sewers. That Ude bill would have
he effect or entirely superseding the metropolitan commissioners of
sewer, That in the opinion of this commlarion no plan of appro-
priating the contents of the metropolitan sewer. ought to be enter-
tained until the general survey and levels have been completed.
Mr. CHADWice in moving that the resolutions be adopted
by the court, observed that it was fortunate for the share-
holders in the sewage manure companies that the commission
had interfered to delay their operations, for it was discovered
in the case of one company that they proposed to construct a
tunnel which they estimated at 25,0001., but which it was
ascertained should net cost more than 7,0001. In another
ease it was proposed to use the sewage manure of certain
districts, and an annual profit of 60,0001. was expected from
it, without making any allowance whatever to the rate-
payers. The subject of applying sewage manure to the im-
provement of land was under the consideration of the com-
mittee, and they desired to have authority from the com-
mis•ionere to make experiments with reference to the
application of sewage manure to land.
The resolutions were adopted, and the authority asked
for granted.
A petition was read from Mr. Stallwood, a rate-pryer in
the Holborn and Finsbury district, complaining of the ex-
cessive expellee which attended the collection of the rates of
the division, an,' praying that the local commissioners might
be compelled to give an explicit account of the moneys re-
ceived and expended. The petitioner stated that a silver
breakfast service had been purchased out or the rates fur the
benefit of the local commissioners, and he prayed that this
service might be valued, and the amount epplied in diminu-
tion of the rate. The petition was referred to the committee
for general purposes.
A memorial from the inhabitants of Holborn was read, and
referred to the committee for general purposes
The Treasurer reported that 3,3351.4,. 4d. had been ex-
pended since the last court.
Toe court then adjourned to Thursday the 23rd inst.

SCHOOL FOR THE INDIGENT BLIND, ST. GEORGE'S
FieLns.-The annual general meeting of the governors and
friends of this institution (of which her Majesty is patron)
was held yesterday at the Loudon Coffee-house, Ludgate-
hill, to receive a report from the comm.ttee of management
and for the election of officers for the present year. The
Right Hon. the Earl Radst-ck presided. The Marquis of
Bute, the Right lion. the Earl Cornwallis, the Earl of
Eldon, the Lord Bishop of London, the Bishop of Win.
cheater, and Lord Teignmouth, wire elected vice-presidents.
From the report. which was read by Mr. Or, ueber, the secre-
tary, it appeared that the institution was established in
1799, for the education of the blind. Instruction is con-
veyed not merely by oral information, but Also by means of
books in raised or embossed letters, thus enabling the blind
to acquire knowledge by their own exertions, and rerdering
them in some degree independent of their teachers. The
Scriptures, both of the Old and New Testament, the Liturgy,
together with several other useful works, have already been
printed. The other greet design of the institution is in-
structing the indigent blind in a trade, whi.di is considered
the most useful part of the charity. During a period of 46
years, 350 persons, exclusive of those who have been
place d on the permanent list or died, have been returned
to their families able to earn from 6s. to 28s. per week. The
total number of pupils has increased from 15 males, ad-
mitted in 1800, to 75 males and 76 females ; and a manufac-
tory has been established, where articles mode last year, en.
tirely by the hands of the blind persons, were sold for 1,216/.
The financial statement, up to the 31st December, showed
the receipts to have been-from donations, 2,1331. 12s. ; from
dividends, 2,0271 64. ; rents, 801. 5.. 3di ; pariah allowance,
for board of pupils, 1721. Is. 6d. ; sale of goods. 9141. 7s. 10d.;
good. received, 2331. 13s. 4d.; legacies. 1,0911. 12a. 6d.; do.
in cash. 1,1631. se. ; sale of stoek, 1.5761. 13.. ; balance in
hand, 1,1571. 12.. 2d. ; making a total of 9,4681. 12s. 4d.
The expenditure for the same period amounted to
7,8671. Is. Ild., leaving a balance in band of 1,6011. 4s. sd.
-The report was adopted.-The noble Chairman remarked
that a very important subject had been entirely loot eight
of, namely, the election of a president in the room of his
Gr..ce the A.-chbishop of Canterbury.-On the motion of
Mr. Miller, it was agreed that Lord ltadstoek should com-
municate with the Bishop of Winchester, and a.eertain from
him whether his brother, the Right Rev. Dr. Sumner, the
Archbishop (elect) of Canterbury, would consent to act as
president, which was agreed to.-A vote of thanks to the
chairman closed the proceedings.
NEW BRUNSWICK AND NOVA SCOTIA LAND Cold-
' PAN ir.-Y•sterday the usual annual meetint was hell at the
offices of the company, 5. Copth al cou rt,T hrogmo r ton-s• rcet.
The chair was takenoy 3lr. J. Moxon. The report of the direc-
tors stated that the tot it amount of emigration from English
and Irish ports in 1847 amounted altogether to about
three times as many as in ordinary seasons ; but the greater
number consisting almost exclusively of Irish in the lowest
state of poverty and disease ; the emigration of the efficient
climes had fallen much below the usual number, and the ex-
pectations farmed of the sale of land had therefore been dis-
appointed. The number of acres of land disposed of
in 1847 did not amount to more than 1.819 purchases ;
the gross sum of purchase money was 4751., the highest and
lowest prices being respectively 205., 12s. 6d., and 4.. 6d. per
acre. The number of acres sold in 1848 was 3078. The
number of settlers its that year was 167, and in 1847, 172.
The produce in 1647 was: wheat, 451 bushels ; buckwheat,
2,579; easta, 11,307; barley, 169; rye, 839; torn and pease,
359; potatoes, 18,231; turnips, 2,136; hay, 795 tons. The
number of cattle, 429 head ; horses, 101; she .p, 432; pia,
271. The amount of land cleared up to this time was 3.128
acres. Considering that the harvest of 1847 in the province
generally wee not so good as in the previous year, the
directors) considered that the above returns, compared
with those of that year, were satisfactory. Capt. Hayne's
estimate of expenditure in 1817 was 1,8551. curreeey, and the
sum actually disbursed having amounted to 1,8621. 19s. 72.,
excluding 123!. 16*. 9d. paid for settlers' remittances,
the directors considered that his calculations on that
side of the account had been very nearly realised. The re-
ceipts fur the year, estimated at 2,687!. cerrency, had
realised no more than 1,6861. ; and the directors observing
that his estimated receipts for 1847 and previous years had
been founded mere upon accounts due than on those likely
to be realised, they instructed Capt. Haynes, about the close
clod,ln:austear, to forward an estimate of receipts in future
as needy at possible, on items which could be relied

an. The result woe that the Stanley receipts for 1848 were
caudated at 1,1701., end the expenditure at 1,1361. 4e. Bd.
If those estimates should be realised, there would
be no necessity for say remittances from London.
The directors stated that they bad deemed it necessary
to exorcize a rigid ecionoary, and had accordingly reduced
their payments, both at Stanley and in London, by a consi-
derable amount. The position and liabilities of the com-
pany on the 31st December, 1846, were as follows:—Loans
due to the bankers, 1,5001. ; two tells drawn from Stanley,
due 1848, 2801., being 1,7801. Deducting the balance at the
bankers', the liabilities amounted, on the 31st December,
1847, to 1,5861., which haleness &ring the cempany exceeded
the estimate by about 1861. The debit on the Stan), y
balance-sheet had, however, been paid off -leaving a balance
in favour of about 601. The director' under those circum-
stances had resorted to a call of It. per cent. The di-
rectors estimated that th. re would be a total deficiency on
31st December, 1848, of 3101. They noticed that surveys had
been made for several*railways In North America, which
they conceived would greatly benefit the company if carried
out. The total quantity of land sold and granted, up to the
31st December, 1847, amounted altogether to 27,263 acres,
leaving 633,164 acres still remainii.g. The total cash hithi rto
received on land sales amounted to 4,4841. 6.5. 5d., currency.
The amount still due wu 4,1721. 34. Id. The secretary then
read the official report of Capt. Bayne, on which the shove
was mainly founded, and which entered into various details
respecting the management sf the company during the post
year. The debtor and cred i tor colon ial account shower& total of
1,9861. 161. 4d., out of which • b dance remained of 1301 Ils.
A conversation ensued on various matters connected with
the state and prospects of the company, in the emirs, of
which the Chairman observed, that as they could not look
upon their operations to have been altogether successful, he
would recommend, as the government were likely to enter
into large public works, having, he b. lieved, a disposition to
connect their North American possessions by means of a
railway, that the company should still hold its land in as
economical a manner as possible, until an opportunity pre-
sented itself for its sale, at such a price as to give &respecta-
ble dividend ; and be believed that this opportunity would
occur before a very few years had expired. The report was
adopted, and the usual routine business—consisting of the
re-election of the directors and auditors—being transacted,

the proceedings terminated.
GERMAN HOSPITAL, DALSTON.—The anniversary
festival took place yesterday 'Teeing at the London Tavern,
when about two hundred gentlemen sat down to dinner. Sir
R. H. Inglis presided in the absence of the Duke of Cam.
bridge. The toasts drunk, in addition to the usual prelimi-
nary ones, were " Prosperity to the institution" and the
health of the King of Prussia. The Chevalier Bunsen ac-
knowledged the latter toast. The healths of the Duke of
Cambridge (the president) and Mr. B. B. C.bbell and the
vice-presidents followed: they were responded to with due
honours. The report stated that the number of patients re-
lieved by the hospital since its foundation, and
We three dispensaries in connexion with it,
amounted to 4,215, of whom 941 had been re.
ceived as in-patients, and 3.274 as out patients ; of the
latter a small number were Enclisb. The premises at ,
Dalston, though capable of considerable enlargement, at
present afforded room only for 40 beds; whilst the applica-
tions had been so numerous that many patients had, neces-
sarily, from time to time been refused admission. To meet
the expellees incurred in the purchase and repairs of the
building, the fitting up of the wards and sanatorium, and
the maintenance of the establishenint up to the present
time, 8,9121. 17s. 2d. had been received in dona-
tions and subscriptions; but a debt of 2,260/. (in-
chiding 1,6001., part of the purchase-money of the
premises) stall remained, the liquidation of which
called for renewed exertions on the part of the friends of the
insti,lldoo, the more so as the annual expenditure was about
1,7001., while the annual subscriptions amounted at present
only to 5801.—The Secretary announced a long list of do-
nations which had been received during the evening, amount.
ing in all to 1,4261. 15e., of which 661. 16s. were annual.
They included 251. from the chairman, and 501. respectively
from the Queen Dowager. Miss Burdett Coutts, and the
Duke of Cambridge.
SWEARING IN SPECIAL CONSTABLES.—AD order
was yesterday issued by the Secretary of State for the Home
Department, directing that in consequence of the authorities
and other influential persons, in various parishes of the me-
tropolis, having expressed their willingness to be sworn in as
special constables for the protection of property and preser•
vation of the public peace, the magistrates of the chenets
were immediately to make arrangements for the swearing in
of such respectable persons as were disposed to act.
THE TIMES " REFORMING ITSELF.—Sir,—It must
be gratifying to you to observe the good effect of the lecture
you gave the Times fur making too much of the Trafalgar-
square row. Not only has the Times desisted from exagger-
ations on this head : it was yesterday at the trouble of trans-
lating the very article in which you chastised it into it. own
more diffuse style—omittine, of course, the passage which re•
lated to its own blunder. if the Times perseveres in thus
implicitly repeating at second band the prompting+ of the
Expresz, it may come in time to be a decent and sensible
Journal.—Z.
BLUNDERS OF THE BANKRUPTCY
If there is one thing more needful than another in a com-
mercial country like our own it is accuracy as to dates in
matters of business, the more especially where individuals
cannot conduct their own affairs with success, and have to
place them under the contrel of the Court of Bankruptcy.
The fiat ?netted against James Oliver Mason, John Mason,
and Alfred Mason on Tuesday last, and which appeared in
due course in your columns of yesterday, has the following
dates named as the days for the two. meetings held for the
working of it—viz. April 23 and May 18. The former day
is on a Sunday, and both are palpably wrong, inasmuch as
they exceed the period (42 days) allowed by the statute to
the bankrupts for the disclosers of their affairs. What the
right drys arc I presume a subsequent re-advertising will
disclose to the public and the creditors of the bankrupt firm,
to some of whom the error will, I fear, lead to great incon-
venience. In addition to the ample salaries all .wed to the
commissioners and employes of the court, the Lord Chan.
eclior had hitter direct his secretary of Imekrupts to provide
each deputy registrar with a copy of " Monre's Almaeack,"
so that blunders so egregious as the above may not in future
occur. I have myself examined the Gazette, and have ascer-
tained that the error actually exists there, and is not attri-
butable to any erecr in the abstract published in the aaily
journals. The publication of this letter may perhaps save
similar blunders hereafter. The one now complanced of
must have pissed the ordeal of the attorney taking out the
fit, who pre; arcs the advertisement ; the deputy registrar,
who peruses all documents ever put on the proceedings of
the court ; the commissioner, who notes ths days of meet-
ing; and, lastly, the messenger who hat to act upon it
and see et is duly inserted in the Gazette.—A. F.—Lon-
don, March 9.
INQUEST, YESTERDAY. MEDICAL TREATMENT.
—By Mr. Mills, in board-room of the Middlesex Hospital,
upon Henry Dickenson, aged Luz years, the sou of a re-
spectable carver and gilder.--The father stated that culy
lest January deceased sustained Blight injuries from his
clothes catching fire. Mr. La Rue attended him, and
ordered in the space of • fortnight seventeen different boxes
of ointments, of various colours. At the expiration of the
fortnight Mr. La Rue said that the last ointment, a rot one,
was declared by another surgeon to have done more harm
than good. He then sent Mr. Davies, another surgeon, to
attend deceased in his stead, who repeated the ointment
treatment, and after another fortnight declared the deceased
was doing well, and in a fair way of recovery. But as the
child's appearance was dangerous, Mr. Briery, surgeon, was
called on two hours after Mr. Davin had spoken so favour-
' ably of deceased's condition, who said that he was in the
most imminent danger, and that he should be instantly re-
' moved to the hospital, and he was accordingly conveyed to
the Middlesex Hospital.—Mr. Dickson, the house-surgeon,
found tea ounces of matter under the left knee, and the
, back of his head was one mass of sores. The bone of
the left leg was so diseased, that nothing could rave
his life but amputation, which he could not endure in conse-
quence of his exhausted state. He bandaged the head, the
back part of which was so diseased that the bone under the
scalp was, exposed. In his opinion deceased died of ex-
haustion, produced by abscess at the kme and general
disease consequent thereon. Deceased's lath, r frequently
exclaimed that his child had been killed by improper medics.:
treatment before he went to Use hospital, and several j urors ex-
premed a desire to accompany their verdict with a censure
upon that treatment, but upon the coroner's recommenda-
tion they returned the following verdict .—" That deceased
died from exhaustion, produced by burning accidentally in-
flicted clueing his mother's tcmporary absence." The jury
expressed a hope that publicity would be given to the melan-
choly occurrence through the tams, to prevent a similar
trifling with human life being again repeated. In reply to
a question from the coroner, Mr. Dickenson said that Messrs.
La Rue and Davies were properly qualified surgc•ns, and
also declared himself perfectly satisfied with the treatment
of his child while in the hospital.

RIOTOUS PROCEEDLNGS LN MANCHESTER.
Our correspondent, who dates his communication,
" Manchester, hursday, Five o'clock," says:
Up to yesterday there was every appearance of tran-
quillity here, but in the evening, atter I had despatched my
parcel by the express train, a crowd of people assembled in
Tib-street, opposite premises used by the board of guardians
fur the employ merit, as a test of disposition to work, of able •
bodied peepers. there were only a few hundreds of men,
women sad lads present, and th.ir object appears to have
been merely to rent their indignation again: the hosed of
guardian for giving t mp:oymo. t to did*, rent hrai.ches of
trade fur less wages than those usually paid. After hooting
and creating come excitement in the neighbourhood they
were dispersed by the police, without difficulty.
This morning a more serous and better organised attsck
on the mills began, having for its object to turn out the
hands yet employed, and create .listurbance, as in 1842.
About 10 o'clock near upon 63') people, chiefly 'out, e,
from fourteen to eighteen years of age, assembled
at New-cruss, from time immemorial almost the centre
or nucleus for mob gatherings, silo re an Irishman harangued
them from the upper *tips of tl.e Cr .se, and, after u:iudi..g
to the affairsof the previous ev,...lng, in Tib• street, advised
that they should adjourn their meeting to the outskirts o:
the teem, where their is rant meters could not interfere
wita them. Taey proceeded in a ',toggling trAly from New
Cross, at this suggestion, along Oloham-road, through
Spital.strect, crossing the bridge at the top of Jersey-street
On a piece of waste ground in New Islington they halted,
' where the leader again addressed a few words to them, ex-
pressing his regret that some of the party had broken the
windows of shopkeepers in their route. He told them that
these ware people almost bankrupt, and poor as themselves,
and they ought not to destroy their property- He said they
ought rather to look at the pampered and rich aristocracy as
the great mule of their misery, and he advised the people to
proceed from thence to the mills, and through the streets of
the town, in procession. to enlist sympathy on their ride.
Three cheer were given fur the French republic, and the

crowd, now augmented considerably in numbers, moved
forward tower& Messrs. Kelly and Gilmour's cotton-
mill, which is in the neighoathood. Notwithstand-
ing the apparently peaceable diapositicn of the
mob, their movements seem to have leer directed, as in the
great turn-out and riots of 1842, by partite who had some
pre concert, sod some of whose secrets bad owed out, as
usual on such occasions; for the magistrates, who had met on
the previous evening and taken tome steps for increasing the
strength of the civil force, had ceased bodies of police ti be
stationed near some of the principal mills in that direction,
towards which the mob now proceeded.
The first mill the mob proceeded to woe that of Messrs.
Kelly and Gilmour. Immediately they prevented themselves
under the windows, the hands inside hailed them, but the
doors of the mill had been fastened, so that the owners might
tern a deaf ear to their summons to turn out the hands
without personally encountering them. They thundered at
the doors for some time, however, and et length the proprie-
tors apprehending that these obstacles to their entrance
would be forced, intimated that the hands should turn out if
diapered, and join them. They gave a shout of triumph, and
wasting till a great number of the workpeople had
joined them—the yeunger portion of the males ap-
parently nothing loth to do so—the word was
given to march forward. This r.eighboutheod, ADCO3II.
literally Entitled with cotton factories, but the mob, now in-
creased to something like 2,000 in number, passed some of
them without notice. They stopped next at tho deer of
Messrs. George Clark and Sons, in Percy-street, and I.udly
demanded that the woikpeople should le turned ore, at-
tempting at the same time to force the (rent doors. Before
they could effect their object, however, they were en.ouss-
tered by a force of about 20 of the C division ol p-lice, uudee
Superintendent Seymour, who endeav, ured at first to dis-
perse them quietly. The police, however, were assailed with
stones, brickbats, and staves in great number,, and ha 1 to
defend themselves. For about twenty initiates a severe
struggle ensued, and it was doubtful whether the polio,
would not be compelled to retire. A reinforcement oppcw-
twisty opining up at the end of that time the mob were die-
persed—or, rather, were compelled to wore, for they ap•
peered to tollow out some ulterior scheme previously agreed
upon, and prooeeded towards Messrs. Kennedy's mid, in
Great Animate-street. In the attack upon Memo. Clark
and Sons' mill several policemen were severely hurt with
brickbat,, which for some minutes were hutted at the no in
shower., and one was taken to the statiou-Louse for surgical
assistance. Many of the snob must have coffered ma the es-
counter, though I believe not fatally in any ease.
On the way to Messrs. Kennedy's the mob stopped for a
moment at the doers of the cotton-mill of Moors. S M.
Moore and Son, and left the marks of some brickbats on the
doors and broke some windows. They also broke a few
panes in the windows of Messrs. George Woolley and Sous'
factory, Great Ancoato-street.
The attack on Messrs. Kennedy 'omill was one of the mode
serious affairs of the morning. The principal frost of this,
lefty mill is partially covered by some low buildings, used
as an entrance-lodge and for oeunting-houses, so that canes
could not be so effectually hurled at the windows of the
main front, some 600 or 700 in number; but the mob made
an attack on the lodge door and on the windows of the
coantimehouses. Mr. R. Kennedy, wi:o is a borough Mee
gistrate, was sittir.g at one of the desks, with the side of his
face exposed to the front windows, intending in another mo-
ment to leave the works and go upon 'Change, when the at-
tack commenced, and was taken somewhat by surprise with
toe shouts to turn out the workpcople. Before he
could leave his seat the at:lday' s were beret
in, and the glass flew in fragment, upon him.
A groat number of brickbats and stones, weisjhbig upwards
of a pound, were also hurled through the windew, a.th
such force as to leave the impression of their presence on the
opposite walls of the rooms. '1 he mob at this time seas
atimated to amount to 3,000 people. Mr. R. Kennedy (111th
only partner at home) instantly rrderel his mechanics (es
portion of the bands loss likely than the spinners to have e
sympathy with the mob) to be sumtnon.d. These men 4c
armed with stiles, must of which had 'Lein unused on the
shelves of the lodge since 1842), and drawing up no me-
chanics in the entrance in two tiles, he tried to got the hoes
of the mill fire engine, worked by a force of 24-horse pewee
from the steam-engine, to clear a sparse for his man to get
out; but for some reason the hose could not be go; into
play with sufficient haste, and the sortie had to be made with-
out this cover. Mr. Kennedy led the sortie into the very midst
of the assailants, and a body of the C. division of police coming
up at the same time end tiling them in flank they were
soon dispersed. Mr. Kennedy received several severe blows.
His foreman of mechanics (a body of men employ, el in all
large cotton mills to keep the machinery in order) was bully
cut on the forehead, and one of the mechanics also received
a severe scalp wound. They made seven prisoners, of v-hom
two only were full-grown men, the others being a woman
and four youths of about 16 or 17 years old. Two of those
had received severe cuts on the head, and out of them, a morn
youth,wu curried into the mill its a state of ineensikillty.
A very large portion of the mob were youths, and almost at
the onsetmovement doe(
.thepe,eineo.
nudntheroot,h.ree
dja:rb.inueitp
althe"ailsoe7. ojf flu
attacking party, probably with the view to directing further
operations. It was reported that the youth above men-
tioned was d.ad, but the fact of his being carried into she
mill in a state of insensibility sufficiently accounts fur the
rumour. It was also rumoured that a policeman hid been
killed, and his body carried away by the mob to cs.aceal
the fact ; but, on nujeiry, the statement turned out to be
untrue. _ . _

The mob were dispersed in several direetion,,but a lar
body of them subsequently rallied, and ptoceeded to the
mill of Messrs. Houldsworth ■nd Bon, in Newton-street,
where they broke some windows but the police interfering;
they sees e again dispersed without infecting their object,
winch was to turn out the hands.

The next point of attack um • more distant past of the
town—Chester-street, Choi Iton-upon-Medlock, and about
one o'clock a large body of people, amongst whom • leaf of
bread was borne on a pole, api erred in front of Messrs.
111,1nd/end's mill Here the 1) division of police, in wrest
force, under Superintendent Taylor, having been previously
assembled near the spot, were brought down upon them,
and a fierce encounter took place, in which Mr. Ta)lor was au
severely handled that he bad to be removed to the iefirmai y.
The web was ultimately dispersed. At too o'clock, how-
ver, soon after the bands at Messrs. Birley's mill in
Chaster-street, had retarned to work, • mob presented
themselves at the door and attempted to tura them out.
A police. force was still present in the neigkbourhoeel, and
consequently this body was dispersed before they hail done
much damage.
At about 20 minutes past three o'clock this afternoon, art
suede was made also on the mill of Mr. J. B. Thorpe,
Bateman'obuildings, Blackfriar4, near the centre of the
town, but the police freely repelled it, and it ended in the
mob retiring with a few broken heads.
At the moment et which I write there is no doubt the
movement is still going on, but the police and the i...gis-
•rares are now so thoroughly on the qui vice, that little
fear is entertained but the affair will be settled wi bout the
matervention of the military. As • precautionary measure,
• thou,and speciol constables are to be sworn in owl em-
bodied to-night.

IRELAND.

DUAT.:N, MARCH n.

Town-councillor Carolen brought for Ward hie mo-
' tion for French congratulation yesterday. The muni-
cipals assembled in great lorce, of whom 42 formed a
majority in support of the motion, while the fri..nds
of the ex-monarchy only numbered 5 ! The tom of
the meeting wee temperate, with the excepti"ii of
Mr. Hamilton, who, in his extreme loyalty, covered
hie own cause with ridicule. A committ.to of lane
was appointed to draw up the address.
The citizens and tradesmen of this city are also
preparing for a grand demonstration. t. Provi-
sional" bodies are now in great rt qui6ition,ar.d, cceord-
ingiy, one has been for some days in existence &lila rat-
ing on the appointment of a permanent directory to
carry out the arrangements for the meeting. Last
night the permanent committee was named, oonbisting
of forty members. A form of requisition to the chief
magistrate was agreed upon, which, inter etlia,su4gicits
the consideration of the measures to be adopted " for
the protection of the liberties and the soil of this coun-
try, in any emergency to which the present etre of
European politics may give rise." A dangerous
element was thrown into the cauldron by a Mr.
Scaiber, who recommended delegation, not only from
the trades of Dublin, but from the various districts
of the country. Though Mr. Mitchel "was not dis-
posed to regard the Convention Act one straw," the
peril was suppressed by the prudence and firmness of
the chairman. The meeting adjourned, with vehe-
ment shouts for the French Republic.
The following very exhortative paragraph is taken
from the address of the Sarsfield Coniederate ('lab,
to their brethren in Fnunx:

Oh, citizen., you know not bow deeply, bow tru!y, wes7eap:Alum
with you—brothers on the red fields of Ftmienoy and Land., s hue
cur loved reszdtild fell. Shall Frenchmen and Irishmen no Finger
fraternise Proud of their participation in the victories of Franca,
in the olden days, tdmll Ireland not now milt at the greatest of her
eictories I Frenchmen. we do vault; we feel u if the victory were
our own. The old tics which bound us are m yet unbroken. Is
heart and feeling we arc comrade a still. Your triumph to our tri-
umph—yew happiness our happiness. Victors of the berrieredeo—
who shall measure the amount of our obligation —the depth is oar
gratitude-to you and bowed down by swim-Lead
wrongs--strickes to the earth by permitted pestilence end eon... Tied
famine--victims of every tyranny, yet robbed of every meals of es.
.64.1/IC4.,—the national spirit which ), or forefathers appl...sicd,
and which your own Wm Rollin had witnessed in '4l, bad well nigh
perieled wneu the announcement of your glorious achlemneent mine
ail, glad tidings °ferret joy to t eel Mute oueillsoirrerheal to, aid to
cheer us with the taeurance that Freedom is ever witun the ;r.otp of
those whomanfully reek her.
- -

There are some misgivings as to the demonstration
iu Dublin on the 17th. Many apprehend a prohibi-
tion by the executive.

SCOTLAND.
THE MOTS,

Great praise (says the Scotenian) is duo to the Sheriff, the
Dad Provost, and magistrates, and Mr. Morey, the ac..sig
superintei !cut of police, fur the able manner in which they
conducted themselves during the disturbance. The special
constables were unceasing in their exertions, sod many indi-
viduals, not previously sworn in, came forward with com-
mendable alacrity to be enrolled for the preservation of the
peace. About fifty indivisluals have been taken into cuitody
by the police.
Daring the riot the ery of "Vire la Republique " err
one or twice beard ; but there war nothing else that CO
in the slightest degree identify the 610414i4 with any yohooll
motive whatever.