The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-23 00:00:00

NATAL COLONISATION.

A dinner was given yeeterdsy evening at the
London Tavern by Mr. J. C. Byrne, to a body of migrants
who are about to Pail fir the colony of Natal in the !Sove-
reign. Abost 100 gentlemen were present, of whom the
major part were persons who were on the em of sailing for
the colony. Tee chair was taken by Kr. BTU'S himself,
who was supported by a camber ofgentlemen who, either
ei shipownen or as prints individuaL, tilt interested in the
enterprise.

THE SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN AND MARINER'S
BENSIVOLIUIT Soctirrr have received anonymously the hand-
some donation of 2001. from a person who signs himself E. B.
Limos) OUT NEWSPAPERS.—On Tuesday, in the
City of London County Court, Guildhall, in a cause Hol-
lingsworth v. Harradine, wherein a claim was made for hire
of newspapers, the judge (Mr. Commissioner Bullock) de-
cided that, by the 246 of George 111., cap. 60, the letting
oat of newspapers was illegal, and that any debt incurred for
the biro of inch papers was not recoverable in any court of
law ; and farther, the person so letting wee liable to a fine
of 61. for every such offence. The claim was disallowed
with costs.
CALLS TO THE BAR, LINCOLN'S-INN.—Tbe Michael-
mas Term alb' to the bar of the Hon. Society of Lincoln's-
ten were made yesterday (November 22), and they comprise
the aftermeationd gentlemen; H. T. J. Macoa-oara, Esq.,
G. P. Smith, 8.A., J. H. Palmer, Esq., W. Parker, Er.,
W. H. Tindall, Esq., J. G. D. Englebeart, M.A., H. R.
Young, M.A , E. D. Rodeos, , E. R. J. Howe, Jun.,
M.A. ;and John Spaakie,
THE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S
lIIW &MAN SHIP Tal SHINE, theist's& of which we lately
reported, arrived from her first voyage yesterday morning,
Is/Wring the Dutch mail from Rotterdam ; and, notwith-
standing she had to go round Helretelnys, owing to want
of water at the Brill, she made the passage in 20 hours.
While at Ritterdam the Seine attracted mach attention,
from the beauty of her model and the neatness of her Steams.
COUNTY Lours.—Chioes Otrreroa—Oa Saturday
Eight last, about wen o'clock, as Mr. Patrick M'Donnell, a
clerk in the employment of Nicholas Martin, Esq , was
from hie residence In Stoney-park to that gentle-
roan' , he was attacked by four men d:eesed like navvies,
who, without the slightest provocation, knocked him down,
and kicked him In the tam several times, lacerating him in a
frightful manner. The plain where the made this cowardly
attack being lonely, the name sat is effecting their
escape at the time. The police wen qakkly put in poem/aka
of the matter, but they could not obtain any further ere to
the whereabouts of the brutal assailants. About 12 o'clock
on the same night due of the night wash, named Jordan,
from a description given him by Mr.M•Draell, soreheaded
a person at the quay,wharasitoonne in his hart ; and on
bringing him to the , where he was kept until
next monies, he was at ease tilled by Mr. WDonnell
as the paver who first stria him. He was remitted to
the Dundalk gasl by Mit Tectule Esq., J.P. He
county
Tipperary. name as Jolla O'Beisey smil states he is from the county
Tipperary. We are led Se sodomised that in °torsion
with this atrociate IMINIt some very strange semioticua may
bs
&Usuxposed, le width se precast ire moot more particalarly
—Now* lithoiresr.